Mark Joseph Young > Quotes

“Paul never preached a message of rules to follow, nor did the other apostles. Rather, they preached that we must love God and each other, and avoid any message that attempts to list the do’s and don’ts of pleasing God.”
― Mark Joseph Young, What Does God Expect? A Gospel-Based Approach to Christian Conduct

“The fruit that appears in your life springs from the nature of the life within you.”
― Mark Joseph Young, About the Fruit

“We must come to understand the Gospel of Christ in a way that most Christians fail to grasp it, not as an introduction to a new code of conduct but as a way of salvation in which what we do does not bring us to it but naturally flows from it.”
― Mark Joseph Young, What Does God Expect? A Gospel-Based Approach to Christian Conduct

“1) Joseph Wade Kondor never knew what hit him. Oh, he could see it well enough--well enough to empty half a clip from his army-issue M-16 into it--but he never knew what it was. It closed fast and hit hard, and if the bullets slowed it down at all, he never knew it. He was dead--for the second time.
--Verse Three, Chapter One”
― Mark Joseph Young