We are and remain such creeping Christians, because we look at ourselves and not at Christ; because we gaze at the marks of our own soiled feet, and the trail of our own defiled garments.... Each, putting his foot in the footprint of the Master, and so defacing it, turns to examine how far his neighborβs footprint corresponds with that which he still calls the Masterβs, although it is but his own. β¨ George MacDonald, Rolland Hein (2004). Creation in Christ: Unspoken Sermons, p.336, Regent College Publishing
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