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To say we love God as unseen and at the same time exercise cruelty toward the least creature moving by His life or by life derived from Him, was a contradiction in itself.

John Woolman (1860). “A journal of the life, gospel labors and Christian experiences, of that faithful minister of Jesus Christ, John Woolman: to which are added, his last epistle, and other writings”, p.28
To say we love God as unseen and at the same time exercise cruelty toward the least creature moving by His life or by life derived from Him, was a contradiction in itself.