Peace Redemption Quotes

“Satan tempted Jesus by offering Him all the kingdoms of the world if He would just fall down and worship him. Are the men in power who start wars with the plan of gaining someone else's kingdom actually falling down and worshiping Satan?”
― Gwen Chavarria, Peace Redemption: A Novel

“The Book of Acts says that the prophet Joel was talking about Pentecost when he described your young men seeing visions and your old men dreaming dreams, and he said those things would be in the last days. So how was Pentecost in the last days if we're here almost 2000 years later waiting for the last days?”
― Gwen Chavarria, Peace Redemption: A Novel

“Every story is ruined when the romance starts. The star is having his adventures and progressing on his journey--until he meets a girl. This is what happened to King Arthur and to Robin Hood. Girls, on the other hand, are just biding their time, usually trapped in a tower or under a witch's curse, till a guy comes along.”
― Gwen Chavarria, Peace Redemption: A Novel

“People shouldn't be throwing their empty bottles (or the caps) out on the side of the road. Don't they listen to Lady Bird Johnson? Besides, if people are throwing their beer bottles into the weeds, they're probably drinking and driving, and that's way worse than littering. Their wrecked car--or somebody else's--might be the next thing littering the roadside.”
― Gwen Chavarria, Peace Redemption: A Novel

“Just like when men dueled with swords or pistols to defend their honor--whatever that is--something is wrong with boys that they have to keep fighting in wars generation after generation. They think they will triumph gloriously like a statue of a general in a city park. Instead they come home in pieces.”
― Gwen Chavarria, Peace Redemption: A Novel