There are many, and there will be many, who will gladly purchase eternal life for a small price, if they see that others are fighting for God in earnest, rather than pretending to do so.

It has served us well, this myth of Christ.

What profit has not that fable of Christ brought us!

As far as Martin [Luther] himself is concerned, O good God, what have we overlooked or not done? What fatherly charity have we omitted that we might call him back from such errors?

Since God has been pleased to give us the Papacy, let us enjoy it.

No person shall preach without the permission of his Superior. All preachers shall explain the Gospel according to the Fathers. They shall not explain futurity or the times of Antichrist!

Not the Christian religion only, but nature herself, cries out against the state of slavery.

To deny that in a child after baptism sin remains is to treat with contempt both Paul and Christ.

Since God has been pleased to give us the Papacy let us enjoy it.

The modern absolutism, which we find the most natural thing in the world, would have been quite beyond the dreams of the most absolute of kings.

I’d eat a picnic in Hades with him.

My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.

I tasted the bread and wine of equality.

I've always been interested in directing. I started acting when I was thirteen years old, so I've had some desire to do something else in my life.

I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn't want to be a frontman; I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.

Allah is too big and open for my deen to be small and closed.

Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire.

We all know about the car breaking down on a deserted road scenario. That's cliché. I'm thinking more of Cider with Rosie, as in, the dark side.

She was the only woman in the homicide unit, and already there had been problems between her and another detective, charges of sexual harassment, countercharges of unrelenting bitchiness.