If one compares the life of the present world with Christ’s teaching and life, one discovers immediately that the greater part of the world is completely opposed to Christ. What is the life of man now other than covetousness, concern over food, search for wealth, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life, that is, the most and best that is in the world, great honor in the world, a great appearance, a great name, disobedience, wrath, enmity, war, disunity, contention, a desire for revenge in words and deeds, secret envy, an unforgiving spirit, unrighteousness, impurity, deception, falsity, slander? In a word, the whole life of the children of this world at this time is nothing other than worldly love, self-love, self-honor and [the desire for] self-gain.
Johann Arndt’
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