It produces a lot of thorns

13 April 2018

Just as rich, fertile soil will produce a lot of thorns if it’s not cultivated, so will human nature. It was made good by its Creator, and well-suited to works of virtue, but because it hasn’t been tilled by the plough of piety nor received the seed of divine knowledge, impiousness has sprung up within it like thorns and other detritus.

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