Servetus Michael 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

I think it is worse to be poor in mind than in purse, to be stunted and belittled in soul, made a coward, made a liar, made mean and slavish, accustomed to fawn and prevaricate, and "manage" by base arts a husband or a father,
I think this is worse than to be kicked with hobnailed shoes. — Frances Power Cobbe

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

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

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

The Catholic Inquisition is well-known for its persecutions, but the Protestants were no better. An infamous example of Protestant evil, an example given by Thomas Jefferson, is the execution of Michael Servetus. A Spanish physician, Servetus wrote that the doctrine of the Trinity makes no sense, that it contradicts the idea that there is only one God. Servetus was condemned to die by the Catholic Inquisition, but he wasn't present, so they couldn't kill him. He had fled to Protestant Switzerland, expecting to be protected there. Instead, the city leaders in Geneva, with the approval of John Calvin (one of the great fathers of Protestant thought) and other Protestant leaders across Europe, had Servetus burned alive (with green wood to give him longer to repent) in 1553. — Russ Kick

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

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

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

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

I feel lost and confused, but happy and certain. I am like a ball of tangled yarn. The parts that are untangled are available, useable; the rest is a mess, useless until it is untied. That mess feels endless and at most times unyielding. — Astrid Lee Miles

The wings are moved several times by hand to charge the crank chamber with mixture, which flows on through the external pipe and inlet valve to the compression space and cylinder. — Lawrence Hargrave

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

We were beyond needing other people. Anyone else who happens on the both of us, they're just temps. — Courtney Summers

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

Maxon kissed the tip of my nose. "Let's go get dry and watch a movie." "Sounds good. — Kiera Cass

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

Paper has more patience than people.' I thought of this saying on one of those days when I was feeling a little depressed and was sitting at home with my chin in my hands, bored and listless, wondering whether to stay in or go out. I finally stayed where I was, brooding. Yes, paper does have more patience, and since I'm not planning to let anyone else read this stiff-backed notebook grandly referred to as a 'diary', unless I should ever find a real friend, it probably won't make a bit of difference. — Anne Frank

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