"Servetus suffered the penalty due his heresies, but was it by my will. Certainly his arrogance destroyed him not less than his impiety."

"It would be indeed better to grant license to thieves and sorcerers and adulterers, than to suffer the blasphemies which the ungodly utter against God, to prevail without any punishment and without an…"

"The reprobate are not able to resist the will of God, but are forced to obey it."

"The church is the mother of all the godly."

"There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice."