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.

  Michael Servetus

  Party, Errors, Agree

  Statement with respect to both Catholics and Protestants written after his work "On the Errors of the Trinity" as quoted in "Michael Servetus - A Solitary Quest for the Truth" in Awake! magazine, pp. 18- 21, May 2006.

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• 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

  Truth, Believe, Crime

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

  Michael Servetus

  Progressive, Eternity, Incidents

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

  Michael Servetus

  Tyrants, Church, May

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• 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

  Philosophical, Proud, Christ

  "Michael Servetus - A Solitary Quest for the Truth". Awake! magazine, pp. 18-21, May 2006.

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

  Michael Servetus

  Errors, May, Mercy

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• 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

  Life, Journey, Breathing

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• 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

  Taken, Men, Thinking

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

  Michael Servetus

  Perception, Found, Intellect

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

  Michael Servetus

  Devil, Christianity, Invention

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• 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

  Men, Patient, Weak

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• Poor people always lose in struggles.

  Michael Servetus

  Struggle, People, Poor

  "Ptolemy's Geography" edited by Michael Servetus, 1535.

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• 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

  Mistake, Want, Argument

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

  Michael Servetus

  Men, May, Facts

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• 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

  Errors, Agreement, Dissent

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• 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

  Eye, People, Pope

  "Michael Servetus - A Solitary Quest for the Truth". Awake! magazine, pp. 18-21, May 2006.

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