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“[Sanctification] is a process that includes on the one hand medication and diet (in the form of biblical instruction and admonition coming in various ways to the heart), and on the other hand tests and exercises (in the form of internal and external pressures, providentially ordered, to which we have to make active response). The process goes on as long as we are in the world, which is something that God decides in each case.”
― J.I. Packer, Rediscovering Holiness

“Holiness is the object of our new creation. We are born again so that we may grow up into Christlikeness.”
― J.I. Packer, Rediscovering Holiness

“This is also a book about vampires. They’re that iconic American archetype of the rambling man, wearing denim, wandering from town to town with no past and no ties. Think Jack Kerouac, think Shane, think Woody Guthrie. Think Ted Bundy.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

“It is easy to be carried away by the sheer horror of what the daily press reveals and to lose sight of the fact that this is merely the brutal exterior of a deeper crime, of commitment to a social order that guarantees endless suffering and humiliation and denial of elementary human rights,”
― Noam Chomsky, The Essential Chomsky