Sebastian Franck

“To burn a heretic is not to defend the truth, but to kill a man.”

“The Scripture cannot be the Holy Spirit's own, particular book, nor the Bible the only word of God; for the Word of God is living, and may not be bound in a book.”

“Every man has his own master, and is a heretic to all others.”

“God is an unutterable sigh, lying in the depths of the heart.”

“Go forth, said Christ, to all the world; but the sectarians say, come hither to us, for here only is Christ.”

“The true church is not a matter of stone and wood, but of spirit and truth.”

“I will not be a Papist... I will not be a Lutheran... For the church of Christ is not at Wittenberg, nor is it bound to any place, person, or time.”

“The world is a book written by God, where every creature is a letter and a word.”

“The more learned, the more perverse.”

“Do not surrender your heart to any man, but give it to God alone.”

“There is nothing on earth that is not in man.”