But if it should happen, as it often does, that the temporal power and authorities...should urge a subject to do contrary to the Commandments of God, or hinder him from doing them, there obedience ends, and that duty is annulled.
But no one shall be dragged to them by the hair, or kept from them by force, for I can drive no man to heaven with a club.
For the Church remains our mother because Christ remains Christ, and she is not changed into a step-mother simply because of our evil rulers.
I prefer the wrath of the world to the wrath of God; they can do no more than take my life.
If every man had faith, we would need no more laws....
If infant baptism were not right, then for one thousand years there was no baptism and no Christian church.
No well-regulated community ever existed long, if at all, where there were many laws.
Now, if no other work were commanded but chastity alone, we would all have enough to do with this one; so perilous and raging a vice is unchastity.