Michael Servetus Quotes & Sayings

Jesus, Son of the Eternal God, have mercy on me. — Michael Servetus

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. — Michael Servetus

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. — Michael Servetus

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. — Michael Servetus

I do not separate Christ from God more than a voice from the speaker or a beam from the sun. Christ is the voice of the speaker. He and the Father are the same thing, as the beam and the light, are the same light. — Michael Servetus

God gave us the mind so that we can know him. — Michael Servetus

I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity. — Michael Servetus

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. — Michael Servetus

To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man. — Michael Servetus

Poor people always lose in struggles. — Michael Servetus

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. — Michael Servetus

May the Lord destroy all the tyrants of the church. Amen. — Michael Servetus

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

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. — Michael Servetus

The French are endowed with bigger limbs; those of the Spaniards are stronger; they have a very slim waist. The French fight with more ferocity than advise. The Spaniards the opposite. — Michael Servetus

Do not be surprised if I adore as God what you called humanity, since you talked of humanity as if it was empty of spirit and you think in the flesh according to the flesh. — Michael Servetus

No one with a body full of aliments can have a luminous soul and other intellectual faculties. It is necessary to care for the body if we wish the spirit to function normally. — Michael Servetus

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

And because his Spirit was wholly God, he is called God, and he is called man on account of his flesh. — Michael Servetus

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

Only he shakes the heavens and from its treasures takes our the winds. He joins the waters and the clouds and produces the rain. He does all those things. Only he realizes miracles permanently. — Michael Servetus

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. — Michael Servetus

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

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. — Michael Servetus

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