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The Baal Book: A Biography of the Devil

by Stephen De Young

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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

by John Godey

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Damien, Father to the Lepers

by John Milsome

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Bearing God: The Life and Works of St. Ignatius of Antioch the God-Bearer by Andrew Stephen Damick

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“The proud man thinks he can comprehend everything with his mind but God does not grant this. But we know the Lord: He has made Himself manifest to us in the Holy Spirit, and the soul knows Him, and is joyful and glad and at ease, and in this lies our hallowed life.”
― Elizabeth P. Fitzgerald, A Year in the Holy Spirit with Saint Silouan the Athonite: - A Calendar of Daily Quotes

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“But he who hopes in the Lord, mercy shall encircle him.”
― Anonymous, The Orthodox Study Bible: Ancient Christianity Speaks to Today's World

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“Driven by fear, people run for security to mountains and forests, to sacred spots and shrines. But none of these can be a safe refuge, because they cannot free the mind from fear.”
― Anonymous

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“It was like we had broken out of a lifetime of prison after realizing the door had been unlocked the entire time!”
― Jennifer Brewer, Free: From Legalism to Grace Breaking Out of the United Pentecostal Church

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“The future is fantasy--it doesn’t exist--but the needy and demanding person you may have to give yourself to today is reality. Christianity is the reality of Christ in us, and not the fantasy.”
― Jeri Massi, Secret Radio by Grace Jovian: My Senior Year at a Christian Fundamentalist College by Grace Jovian

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