“I prefer open hostility to the poisonous silence of supposed neutrality or the empty lip service of performative solidarity.”
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“When a person denies his conscience for too long, it can become seared. That person becomes susceptible to receiving and accepting all sorts of harmful and evil things. This is true for both believers and unbelievers. A seared conscience will open a person up to demonic spirits and activities.”
― ONE: Unfolding God's Eternal Purpose from House to House
― ONE: Unfolding God's Eternal Purpose from House to House
“One word of caution, though, should you ever buy commercial worms. If you go into a backwoods gas station and find a large, rough-looking woman behind the cash register, don’t ask, “Do you have worms?” My friend Retch Sweeney did that a while back. He should get out of his full-body cast any day now.”
― The Horse in My Garage and Other Stories
― The Horse in My Garage and Other Stories
“Rancid was poor. He didn't seem to know that he was poor, however, and I never had the heart to tell him, because he was the happiest person I'd ever met. If he had known he was poor, of course, then he would have been sad and miserable all the time. As it was, Rancid was able to live out his whole life in blissful ignorance of the fact that he was poor.”
― They Shoot Canoes, Don't They?
― They Shoot Canoes, Don't They?
“Unity in the secular world and sadly among most Christian churches is based on uniformity of interest or viewpoints. The oneness in Jesus Christ crosses all boundaries and separations. Anyone with the faith of Jesus Christ can immediately enjoy the innate oneness with another who also has the faith of Jesus regardless of differing political or doctrinal views.”
― ONE: Unfolding God's Eternal Purpose from House to House
― ONE: Unfolding God's Eternal Purpose from House to House
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