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“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Don't Fear the Reaper

“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist”—Charles Baudelaire
“The second greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he is the good guy”—Ken Ammi”
― Charles Baudelaire

“Some time ago, the concept of the “carnal Christian�� became popular among some evangelical groups. The basic idea was that someone could be saved, and yet living no differently than an unbeliever day after day. In their lives there would be no hunger and thirst for righteousness, no patterns of obedience, little or no prayer or Bible reading, spotty church attendance, coupled with a love for the world, and a worldly mindset hostile to the Christian faith. Yet, because these people had “prayed the sinner’s prayer�� or gone forward at a Billy Graham rally, or “asked Jesus into their hearts�� at a youth camp, they were supposedly Christians. This shallow idea of conversion was coupled with the biblical concept of “once saved, always saved,�� and a poisonous concoction resulted. Once that concoction was downed, the person became seriously ill with spiritual self-deception. The end of that road is hell. If anything gives you complacent comfort in a sinful lifestyle, it is a devilish component of the problem.”
― Andrew M. Davis, An Infinite Journey: Growing toward Christlikeness

“If your dad was regularly corresponding with the Mescaline Antichrist of Pasadena, Leave It to Beaver probably seemed like a bastion of middle-class sanity.”
― T. Kingfisher, A House With Good Bones