“Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.”
Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
“One day our Sodom and Gomorrah would be trampled by some all-powerful foot, and this world which laughed, reveled, and forgot God would be transformed, in its turn, into a Dead Sea. At the end of every period God's foot comes along in this way and tramples the cities of the overindulged belly, the overdeveloped mind. I felt afraid”
— Nikos Kazantzakis, book Report to Greco
Sometimes it seems to me that this world is another Sodom and Gomorrah just before God's passage above it. I think the terrible foot can already be heard approaching
"Jerusalem", Ch. 20, p. 249
Report to Greco (1965)
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