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

"The wicked are justly punished, because they have offended God by their sins."

"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 whole life of a Christian should be a meditation on death."

"The elect alone receive through regeneration [grace]. For I stay not to consider the extravagance of those who say that grace is offered equally and promiscuously to all."