"Behold how Christ is the foundation of the……" — Jan Hus
"Behold how Christ is the foundation of the church and the apostles are the foundations! Christ is by a figure of speech - antonomastice - the foundation because the edifice of the church begins from him and is finished in him and through him. But the prophets and apostles are the foundations because their authority bears up our weakness."
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21 Quotes by Jan Hus
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I trust in the Lord God Almighty ... that he will not take away from me the cup of his…
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What I have taught with my lips I now seal with my blood.
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I would never accept the recommendation of the theological faculty.
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O God and Lord, now the council condemns even Your own act and Your own law as heresy, since You…
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Love the truth. Let others have their truth, and the truth will prevail.
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Rejoice, that the immortal God is born, so that mortal man may live in eternity.
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In life eternal, there is perfect joy and light, without pain or torture, and there is communion with God Himself…
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For whoso dies for Christ, he is conqueror and is delivered from all misery and attains the eternal joy to…
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It is better to die well than to live badly.
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He that fears death loses the joys of life.
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I have often had apparitions of hosts of serpents with heads at their tails, but not one was able to…
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I entreat all artisans faithfully to follow their craft and take delight in it. I entreat all servants to be…
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