"Yet, so far from laboring to know the……" — 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 thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree."
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Johann Arndt
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11 Quotes by Johann Arndt
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Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail…
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Heart-suffering because of sin is the best proof that the Holy Spirit dwells in your heart.
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Give me ... a compassionate heart, quickly moved to grieve for the woes of others and to active pity for…
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It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and…
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In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many…
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But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that…
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For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves.
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This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though…
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Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when…
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More Careless Quotes
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one of 294 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
— Irving Babbitt
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Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband…
— Honore de Balzac
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That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first…
— Robert Browning
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The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
— A. R. Ammons
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
— Ben Jonson
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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy…
— Horace
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A lean cheek, - a blue eye, and sunken, - an unquestionable spirit, - a beard neglected:- Then your hose…
— William Shakespeare
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If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect,…
— John of the Cross
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Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Why don't we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto…
— Michael Pollan
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When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses.
— Richard Sibbes
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