Frank E. Peretti Quotes

#1. A little love and attention can go a long way ... too bad more people don't realize that.

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#2. Take away truth and people will lie. Scoff at virtue, and betrayal becomes a matter of course.

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#3. If this was sanity, being crazy made a lot more sense.

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#4. But the transition from the New York Times to the Ashton Clarion was like jumping off a speeding train into a wall of half-set Jell-O.

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#5. If you've ever been there, you've never forgotten. The feeling is as haunting and familiar as the smell of a junior high school locker room.

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#6. But why not? He deserved it. It took years to take control of this school - to oust the resisters, to implant the sympathizers, to blind the parents to what was happening to their children. It was no small task.

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#7. I will go to the saints first. Already there is plenty in Bacon's Corner for them to be upset about, plenty to divide them. I will keep them busy censuring and smiting each other, and then their hearts will be far from praying." He

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#8. I like winning, it just takes longer

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#9. But kids like us grow up and need our own relationship with God, forged in the heart through time and experience, not draped around us by the church we attend. We need to know God for ourselves, not secondhand.

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#10. I am free. I am ransomed. I've never felt this way before, like a slave set free who was born a slave and never knew what freedom was like.

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#11. The problem is, if you really want the Truth, then you have to have God along with it.

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#12. Sin is the Monster we love to deny. It is crouching at the door and it wants you, but you must overcome it.

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#13. The claws of Truth were painful. The lies tore away like scabs, and John bled there for hours, stifling his cries of pain in the sleeve of his overcoat - the overcoat he'd received from his father.

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#14. Because I believe in God, I believe the Good, what's right, is worth fighting for. - John Barrett Jr.

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#15. Let's be honest: ignoring is acting, and nothing more - acting as though the words, or actions of your oppresors don't hurt. you hear the words, you feel the insults, and you bear the blows. you can act deaf and impervious to pain, but the stabs and the arrows pierce you anyway.

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#16. Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it's safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don't grow anymore.

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#17. Killing one person makes you a murderer. Killing a million people makes you a king. Killing them all makes you God.

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#18. Preach Christ . . . and if you must, use words." Comforting others puts our pain into perspective.

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#19. A truth our socetiy must not lose sight of and that is the sanctity of every human life and the dignity of every indvidual

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#20. You want proof there's a God? Look outside, watch a sunset.

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#21. God does not waste an ounce of our pain or a drop of our tears; suffering doesn't come our way for no reason, and He seems efficient at using what we endure to mold character. If we are malleable, He takes our bumps and bruises and shapes them into something beautiful.

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#22. The depth of a person's character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility.

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#23. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. - EPHESIANS 6:12

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#24. So why should he even bother himself with this? The answer came to his mind: Because what happened to Annie Brewer was evil and evil prevails when good men do nothing.

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#25. The goal is always the same. I want to change people's lives and bring them closer to the Lord in a new way. I want to confront them with an issue.

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#26. When you live in a world that likes bad guys, the bad guys don't go away.

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#27. Staying alive is nice, but you can't do that forever. It's how you live the life you have while you have it.

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#28. Don't worry about getting perfect, just keep getting better.

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