Petr Chelčický

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

Petr Chelčický (c. 1390 – c. 1460) was a Christian and political author in 15th century Bohemia (now the Czech Republic).

Quotes

The Net of Faith (c. 1443)

Online translation by Enrico C. S. Molnár

• He who obeys God needs no other authority.

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

• 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.

External links

• Chelcicky's Nonviolence
• "The Bohemian Brethren" in Communism in Central Europe in the Time of the Reformation by Karl Kautsky
• Molnár's A Study of Peter Chelcický’s Life and a Translation from Czech of Part One of his Net of Faith as one web page, as a page per chapter, and as a PDF file.
• The Birth, Life, and Death of the Bohemian Revival