We are encompassed by a creation; and one piece of it is this ground under
our feet. We go forth upon it; we live from it; we have a certain power
over it; we are employed with it and yet it nowhere comes completely
right.
If one observes the morals, customs, viewpoints, and lives of all the
world’s peoples, he is amazed that, alongside the glorious appearance of
nature’s truth, mankind goes as if deranged. As the Chinese who bind a
girl’s feet are not satisfied until she is so crippled she can’t walk, so
do all the nations and peoples, be they Christian or heathen, right in the
midst of the organism of truth which is creation, manage to make habitual
falsifiers of themselves.
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Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
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