You must pray to God for forgiveness because I can give you none

In one sphere above all others, Anne Boleyn still had the power to influence him, and that was in the case of church reform. Anne was a passionate and sincere evangelical, the owner of a library of controversial reformist literature, and she was sympathetic to radical and even Lutheran ideas.

If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by

I prefer to be left alone with my books.

I cannot go with you all the way on your journey, but I would go as far as I might

Often, little brother, there is no smoke without fire.