But it is hard that men, once ingrained in a faith, should change it for another.

It were like asking a tiger to become a leopard.

We are unlearned men, and in no way skilled in the exercises of theology.
We accepted what we were taught, and would fain die in the same belief.

Doubtless your priests could give us arguments which we should be unable to refute, whatever might be done by learned men of our church; and we would pray you to suffer us to hold to the creed in which we have been reared." "It is impossible," the inquisitor said, "that we should permit you to go on, straightway, in the way of damnation.

Your bodies are as nothing to the welfare of your souls; and to save the one it were, indeed, for your good that the other were tormented.