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“I was glad to be gone from that place, for they listened not to simple reason, looked not at the world about them, sought not the truth, believing instead in the literal words of ancient tales - truths, history, parables, myths, legends, fables, and facts intermingled and recorded on their 'infallible' scrolls.”
― The Eye of the Hunter
― The Eye of the Hunter
“The phrase as weak as a baby doesn’t apply in the kingdom of God, for when the Lord wants to accomplish a mighty work, He often starts by sending a baby. This was true when He sent Isaac, Joseph, Samuel, John the Baptist, and especially Jesus. God can use the weakest things to defeat the mightiest enemies (1 Cor. 1: 25–29). A baby’s tears were God’s first weapons in His war against Egypt (p. 21).”
― Be Delivered [Exodus]: Finding Freedom by Following God
― Be Delivered [Exodus]: Finding Freedom by Following God
“Scriptures do have a role in society, but only as literature, like any other literature, nothing more.”
― Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism
― Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism
“The Bible is spectacular in the sense that it is full of analogies that can be conveyed to any situation and a history of recorded life choices that are simple yet as profound as trading prosperity for soup.”
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