Jan Hus Quotes

I entreat all artisans faithfully to follow their craft and take delight in it. I entreat all servants to be faithful servants of their masters and mistresses.

I trust in the Lord God Almighty … that he will not take away from me the cup of his redemption, but firmly hope to drink from it today in his kingdom.

By the fruits which it bears is the tree known.

I have often had apparitions of hosts of serpents with heads at their tails, but not one was able to bite me; and many other visions.

I entreat students of letters and other scholars to obey their masters in things good, to imitate them, and diligently apply themselves to letters for the sake of God’s honour and their own salvation and that of other men.

I would never accept the recommendation of the theological faculty.

I hope, by God’s grace, that I am truly a Christian, not deviating from the faith, and that I would rather suffer the penalty of a terrible death than wish to affirm anything outside of the faith or transgress the commandments of our Lord Jesus Christ.

What I have taught with my lips I now seal with my blood.

Indeed, no one does more injury in the church than he who acts perversely and yet has the name and order of sanctity.

In life eternal, there is perfect joy and light, without pain or torture, and there is communion with God Himself and His angels.

For whoso dies for Christ, he is conqueror and is delivered from all misery and attains the eternal joy to which may it please our Saviour to bring us all.