“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.”

— Petr Chelčický , book The Net of Faith

Source: The Net of Faith (c. 1443), Chapter 95

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15th century Bohemian Christian radical 1390–1460

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