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by Randy Alcorn

It’s hard for a history major to live in a country where history and every current event is edited.

‘The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.’

“And do you think your refusal to believe will convince God to change his nature? He is who he is no matter what you think of him.

“I guess I never believed in healing,” Ben said in the darkness. “No one can believe in God and not in healing,” Quan said.

“Wife and husband must be more than lovers. Must be comrades, soldiers fighting side by side for same great cause.

Most trouble comes not from atheists who say there is no God, but from those who adopt strange ideas because of no training in Shengjing.

“They don’t understand that I am not only at work here, preparing a place for them, but I am at work there, preparing them for that place.”

In house churches we have little to hope in but our God. In America, you have much to hope in besides God. None but he can bear the weight of your hope. But that is often forgotten. The test of prosperity is not easily passed.”

And there are an unlimited number of fascinating subjects for your future books. Now you can write it with clarity you caught only glimpses of in the Shadowlands. Now you see with bright, discerning eyes invigorated by the pure air of Charis. Yes, I meant for you to write books, not in that world but this one. What you write here will bring insight and delight to you and all who read it. And it will bring pleasure to me.