““For immediately in the beginning, after his original life of blessedness, the first man despised the command of God, and fell into this mortal and perishable state, and exchanged his former divinely inspired luxury for this curse-laden earth. His descendants having filled our earth, showed themselves much worse, with the exception of one here and there, and entered upon a certain brutal and insupportable mode of life.””
![“We are the Lord’s agents in the work of salvation and exaltation that will prevent ‘the whole earth [from being] smitten with a curse’ when He returns again. This is our duty and great blessing.” quote by David A. Bednar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f8a/david-a-bednar-2121_blessings_we-are-the-lord-s-agents-in-the-work-of_2410897.jpg)
![“[N]early all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.” quote by C.S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4b7/c-s-lewis-121_christianity_n-early-all-that-we-call-human-history-m_170233.jpg)
![“It is my purpose also to give the names and number and times of those who through love of innovation have run into the greatest errors, and, proclaiming themselves discoverers of knowledge falsely so-called [1 Timothy 6:20] have like fierce wolves unmercifully devastated the flock of Christ.” quote by Eusebius of Caesarea](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/703/eusebius-of-caesarea-46949_love_it-is-my-purpose-also-to-give-the-names_1758099.jpg)
