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Men Quotes by Johann Arndt
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and…
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison…
- In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of…
- Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be…
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