Perdition Quotes

“Just as Jim had said, given a little nudge and enough freedom to operate, commerce and markets were the natural order of things.”
― Mark Goodwin, Perdition

“For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.   2 Timothy 4:3-4”
― Mark Goodwin, Perdition

“So, for you, Christmas is a messy kitchen?”   Noah took a deep breath as he relished the memory. “Yeah, or at least the people who made the mess.”
― Mark Goodwin, Perdition

“Cassie makes the best sugar cookies. I think we’ll have everything to make those. It’s a tradition to cut them out with Lacy every year and then decorate them with powdered sugar icing.” Noah laughed. “We started getting Lacy involved when she was three. You should have seen the mess in that kitchen the first year.”
― Mark Goodwin, Perdition

“As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left. Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.   Matthew 24:37-44”
― Mark Goodwin, Perdition

“Revelation 21.   “Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, ‘Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.’ He who was seated on the throne said, ‘I am making everything new!’ Then he said, ‘Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.’ He said to me: ‘It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life. He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son.”
― Mark Goodwin, Perdition

“Noah nodded. How did this happened in America? he thought. I know how; it’s just like Cassie has said from the beginning. Americans were distracted by the bread and circuses of our age: food stamps, American Idol, The Bachelorette, and seeker-friendly churches. While we were sleeping, the evil crept in and slowly, systematically destroyed our society. The Federal Reserve destroyed our money; the Supreme Court took prayer and the Bible out of schools; they declared the murder of America’s most vulnerable unborn citizens legal and poked their finger in the eye of God by holding themselves up as gods and usurping what God had said about marriage. The atheists converted our children to the religion of atheism through the teaching of evolution in schools. And the church sat silently by. Noah looked down at the pistol on the side of his belt. Well, now we’ll fight. Now that it is all over—our country, our freedom, and our government are gone—now we fight. And for what? For an honorable death. That’s the most we can hope for at this point.”
― Mark Goodwin, Perdition