Michael Servetus quotes

Michael Servetus was a Spanish physician, theologian, and humanist, known for his pioneering work in medicine and religious thought. His studies of pulmonary circulation contributed significantly to the understanding of the human body. He was executed for his unorthodox religious views, becoming a symbol of the fight for freedom of thought. Here are 20 of his 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

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

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

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

Michael Servetus

Michael Servetus, alone, but trusting in Christ's most sure protection.

Michael Servetus

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

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

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

Inherent of human condition is the sickness of believing the rest are impostors and heathen, and not ourselves, because nobody recognizes his own mistakes.

Michael Servetus

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

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

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

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

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

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