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Our faith obliges us to bind wounds, not to make blood run.

— Petr Chelčický The Net of Faith (1443)

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He who obeys God needs no other authority.

The Net of Faith (1443)

But true Christians love God and their neighbors as themselves; they commit no evil by the grace of God. It is not necessary to compel them to goodness since they know better what is good than the law-imposing authority.

The Net of Faith (1443)

Wars and other kinds of murder have their beginning in the hatred of the enemy and in the unwillingness to be patient with evil. Their root is in intemperate self-love and in immoderate affection for temporal possessions. These conflicts are brought into this world because men do not trust the Son of God enough to abide by his commandments.

The Net of Faith (1443)

The Church of Rome has allied herself with the state, and now they both drink together the blood of Christ, one from a chalice, and the other from the ground where it was spilled by the sword…

The Net of Faith (1443)

Facts witness to the reality that [Christians] have abandoned God, that they have entered the world and become one with the world. Whatever the world considers praiseworthy – vanity, comfort, wealth, fancy notions, blasphemies – the Christians, too, praise with one accord, quite blatantly without shame and without conscience. We can find with difficulty one man in a thousand who does not conform himself to the world.

The Net of Faith (1443)

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Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

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