The grossest condemnation of human nature is actually not that we are inwardly corrupt, but that we would be said to be inwardly noble and nonetheless prefer most of the time to enjoy going about as devils.
@twannl Last full scale SwiftUI project I worked on required lots of mocking and dependency injection to keep previews working smoothly. But that seems to be only one aspect of the problems people run into at scale.
What is so remarkable is not the human eye and its ability to see, but that everything around us seems to have been fashioned with the assumption that there is an eye to behold it.
“A soul will never know what solid joy and lasting pleasure mean until, weary of itself, it renounces all its possessions and gives itself up to the author of its being.” –Henry Scougal
Oh how we tinker and trouble ourselves with the vanities of mere pleasure without purpose. We chase life as if it were good food with only a lovely taste than never reaches a stomach to satisfy hunger and give the body fruitful strength.
“Do you want to glorify God? Here’s one major way to do it: let him love you. Receive his grace, drink it down, without adding one drop of your own goodness to it.“ –DO