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Johann Arndt

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This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.


— Johann Arndt


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Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.


— Johann Arndt


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But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that it is also to be conquered not without, but within thee.


— Johann Arndt


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For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves.


— Johann Arndt


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About Johann Arndt






Did you know about Johann Arndt?

His principal work Wahres Christentum (book 1: 1605; books 1-4: 1606-1610) i. At Wittenberg the crypto-Calvinist controversy was then at its height and he took the side of Melanchthon and the crypto-Calvinists. After Wahres Christentum Arndt's best-known work is Paradiesgärtlein aller christlichen Tugenden which was publiJohann Arndtd in 1612.

Johann Arndt (or Arnd; 27 December 1555 – 11 May 1621) was a German Lutheran theologian who wrote several influential books of devotional Christianity.

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