Tell me, I beseech you, what effect this will produce when they observe that our lives contradict our creed, and observe our tyranny, our ambition, our avarice, our rapacity, our lust, our debauchery, our cruelty, and our oppressions? The best way of gaining them would be to show that we are the servants and imitators of Jesus Christ; that we covet neither their lands, nor their money, nor their wives, nor their daughters, but we desire only their salvation, and the glory of Christ. This is the true, pure, and powerful theology which formerly subjected to Jesus Christ the pride of philosophers, and the sceptres of kings.

Erasmus - The life and character of Erasmus (pg 194-195) - A.R. Pennington