Life: December 27, 1555 - May 11, 1621
Birthday: December 27
Death: May 11
Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.
source: Johann Arndt (1868). “True Christianity: A Treatise on Sincere Repentance, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc”, p.51
topic: Men, Yield, Giving, Worldly Pleasures, Careless