Michael Servetus Quotes

I do not agree or disagree in everything with either one party or the other. Because all seem to me to have some truth and some error, but everyone recognizes the other's error and nobody discerns his own.

To seek truth and to utter what one believes to be true can never be a crime. No one must be forced to accept a conviction. Conviction is free.

I will burn, but this is a mere incident. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.

May the Lord destroy all the tyrants of the church. Amen.

In the inhalation and exhalation there is an energy and a lively divine spirit, since He, through his spirit supports the breath of life, giving courage to the people who are in the earth and spirit to those who walk on it.

In the Bible, there is no mention of the Trinity. . . . We get to know God, not through our proud philosophical concepts, but through Christ.

May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors.

Nothing can be found in the intellect if previously has not been found in the senses.

It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.

If I have taken the word, by any reason, it has been because I think it is grave to kill men, under the pretext that they are mistaken on the interpretation of some point, for we know that even the chosen ones are not exempt from sometimes being wrong.

Poor people always lose in struggles.

Man becomes weak or ill by accident as a consequence of the lack of resources. Even the most severally ill patients must be treated with the aim of restoring their health.

Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification.

There is therefore a tremendous mystery in the fact that God may be united with man and the man with God.

Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen.

I have seen with my own eyes how the pope was carried on the shoulders of the princes, with all the pomp, being adored in the streets by the surrounding people.