“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.”
― Spiritual Warfare: The Battle for God's Glory
― 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.”
― Spiritual Warfare: The Battle for God's Glory
― Spiritual Warfare: The Battle for God's Glory
“Christian faith is not an irrational leap.Examined objectively, the claims of the Bible are rational propositions well supported by reason and evidence.”
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“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.”
― Exiles in Sepharad: The Jewish Millennium in Spain
― Exiles in Sepharad: The Jewish Millennium in Spain
“The butler waited for my visiting card, but, woe is me, what visiting card shall a man with a cover name produce? …”
― The Prophet: The Life of Leon Trotsky
― The Prophet: The Life of Leon Trotsky
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