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“Satan doesn't have to create religious opposition and government restrictions to inhibit the kingdom of God from being established among all peoples. If he can just get us to live like the world, indulge the flesh and treat sinful behavior as normative, he has deprived God of His glory and diminished the potential of others receiving the gospel.”
― Jerry Rankin, Spiritual Warfare: The Battle for God's Glory

“It is not only the far too prominent moral failures among Christians that bring shame to God and deprive Him of being glorified in our lives but simply the lack of Spirit-led submission to one another. Our independent, self-centered attitudes create dissension that paralyzes the work of God and makes us no different from the world.”
― Jerry Rankin, Spiritual Warfare: The Battle for God's Glory

“For example, in one story a Jew convinces a Christian executioner to sell him the heart of a recently executed man for use in a black magic ritual. The executioner’s wife, discovering this deal, convinces her husband to substitute a pig’s heart for the criminal’s. A few days later a huge crowd of pigs appears in the field, and the animals tear each other apart: had a Christian heart been used, the victims would have been Christians instead. When the king of France learns of this, he orders all the Jews in the region killed.8”
― Jeffrey Gorsky, Exiles in Sepharad: The Jewish Millennium in Spain

“Because Espina claimed an inherited basis for Jewish evil, he considered conversos to be as untrustworthy as the Jews. Overtly Espina advocated that all Jews be exiled; for conversos he favored the establishment of an Inquisition that would find and burn conversos responsible for the heresies he believed had been uncovered by the rebels in Toledo. But Fortalitium Fidei goes further than this, implying that the solution to the converso problem is what we would now consider genocide.”
― Jeffrey Gorsky, Exiles in Sepharad: The Jewish Millennium in Spain

“Christian faith is not an irrational leap.Examined objectively, the claims of the Bible are rational propositions well supported by reason and evidence.”
― Lee Strobel

“The butler waited for my visiting card, but, woe is me, what visiting card shall a man with a cover name produce? …”
― Isaac Deutscher, The Prophet: The Life of Leon Trotsky