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There is a deep and corrosive tribal impulse to act as if “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” But sometimes the enemy of your enemy is just a jackass.
I'm not done with this book yet, but I'm gonna go ahead and say this is the best line in this book.
“It represented the perennial protest that occurs in the church when there is overelaboration of machinery and lack of dependence on the Spirit of God. The Montanist movement was and is a warning to the church not to forget that its organization and its formulation of doctrine must never be divorced from the satisfaction of the emotional side of man’s nature and the human craving for immediate spiritual contact with God.”
― Christianity Through the Centuries: A History of the Christian Church
― Christianity Through the Centuries: A History of the Christian Church
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