"All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired."

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"Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ."

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"Blood alone moves the wheels of history."

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"Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money."

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"Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times."

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"Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding."

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"First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf."

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"For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver."