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"Amish Jihad" <amishjihad@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> to get wealth; and they cannot have
> a title to show that they possess it justly, for they have only that of
> human caprice; nor have they strength to hold it securely. It is the
same
> with knowledge, for disease takes it away. We are incapable both of
truth
> and goodness.
>
> 437. We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty.
>
> We seek happiness, and find only misery and death.
>
> We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty
> or
> happiness. This desire is left to us, partly to punish us, partly to
make
> us
> perceive wherefrom we are fallen.
>
> 438. If man is not made for God, why is he only happy in God? If man is
> made
> for God, why is he so opposed to God?
>
> 439. Nature corrupted.--Man does not act by reason, which constitutes
his
> being.
>
> 440. The corruption of reason is shown by the existence of so many
> different
> and extravagant customs. It was necessary that truth should come, in
order
> that man should no longer dwell within himself.
>
> 441. For myself, I confess that, so soon as the Christian religion
reveals
> the principle that human nature is corrupt and fallen from God, that
opens
> my eyes to see everywhere the mark of this truth: for nature is such
that
> she testifies everywhere, both within man and without him, to a lost God
> and
> a corrupt nature.
>
> 442. Man's true nature, his true good, true virtue, and true religion,
are
> things of which the knowledge is inseparable.
>
> 443. Greatness, wretchedness.--The more light we have, the more
greatness
> and the more baseness we discover in man. Ordinary men--those who are
more
> educated: philosophers, they astonish ordinary men--Christians, they
> astonish philosophers.
>
> Who will then be surprised to see that religion only makes us know
> profoundly what we already know in proportion to our light?
>
> 444. This re
>
Someone cloned me! Does the info in this post's path match?
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