Showing posts with label Louis Cole. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Louis Cole. Show all posts

Wednesday, 16 March 2016

ARE YOU, ZIETERN?


"Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief." - Edwin Louis Cole

How so much true, I find this quote by Edwin Louis Cole. Disobedience is a result of unbelief. Take for instance, Eve. Her unbelief in God's command caused her to eat the forbidden fruit.

In the first war of Silesia, King Frederick decided on a crucial alteration of war plans. So he ordered that under pain of death, neither fire nor candle should be burning in the tents after a certain hour. He went round the camp himself, to see that his orders were obeyed. As he passed by Captain Zietern’s camp, he perceived a light. He entered, and found the captain sealing a letter, which he had just written to his wife, whom he tenderly loved. "What are you doing there?" asked the king: "Do you not know the orders?" Zietern threw himself at his feet, and begged for mercy. "Sit down," said the king, "and add a few words
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