"On occasion, God permits that the devil should be allowed to use crude weapons and thereby reveal himself for what he is. He grabs the opportunity, even though he knows he is losing ground by revealing himself. But his malice is so great, he can't resist." #MichaelDOBrien #DeliverUsFromEvil
"Too readily did you falter and not trust...Too little did you trust the heart of the Father. Too easily have the deceivers played upon your kindness and bent you to their ends...Stand up now, be firm, and strengthen the flock that remains." #MichaelDOBrien #PrayForAmerica
"God frequently leads the soul to a rather insignificant chore. If the soul is faithful to it, he leads him on to other tasks. He begins with the particular and consummates the work in the universal." #MichaelDOBrien
"To look into this darkness and see there the victory of Christ is the essence of hope." #MichaelDOBrien #PrayForAmerica #Hope
"Man is a creature of heaven and earth, but he no longer knows it. He no longer knows himself. He no longer listens. He no longer hears. As a result, we are approaching a crisis of major proportions." #MichaelDOBrien #FatherElijah #MajorCrisis
"Only the criminals, the power mongers, and the saints persist." #MichaelDOBrien #PlagueJournal #PrayForAmerica
"It is in the attics and the cellars of life where we must be bravest of all. It is in the fiery furnace that the three young men dance their praises of the Most High! So too in the furnace of life's afflictions!" #MichaelDOBrien #SophiaHouse #Courage #Perseverance #PrayForAmerica
"You are free. Your will is your own. At every moment, choose the truth." #MichaelDOBrien #SophiaHouse #Truth
"We believe there is only one answer to the blows that evil inflicts on us. The answer is not a rational argument. The answer is a man. This man is God himself suffering with us, dying with us, so that he might draw us up to the Most High, confounding all the devices of the enemy." #MichaelDOBrien
"Do not say the way is impossible; say, rather, that it is the impossible to which we are called." #MichaelDOBrien #SophiaHouse #Courage #Discipleship
"You are the Alpha and Omega, the First and Last, the Morning Star shining bright. The Spirit and the Bride say 'Come!' Be with us now as we face our foe, that we might stand firm, and strengthen the things that remain. Amen." #MichaelDOBrien #FatherElijah
"Give us a while longer to speak the word that shatters lies. When the tyrants and the propagandists and the experimenters have all gone, when the hatred and hopelessness have exhausted themselves, the earth will grieve and be born again." #MichaelDOBrien #FatherElijah #PrayForAmerica
"I know of One who is coming, One who conquers with a Word. He puts forth his foot not to crack a neck, but to break a tomb, and crushes with his foot the Lie." #MichaelDOBrien #SophiaHouse
"You speak of courage, but tell me this -- who is stronger: the one who is ruled by fear and must hold a weapon to prove his false invincibility? Or the one who stands powerless with peace reigning in his soul?" #MichaelDOBrien #SophiaHouse
"Marxism and fascism are brutal forms of the same principle. Despair drives modern man to these solutions, but horrified by the brutality of the recent past, he seeks new forms that preserve the 'appearances' of democracy. The horror is now hidden." #MichaelDOBrien #FatherElijah
"To look into this darkness and see there the victory of Christ is the essence of hope." #MichaelDOBrien #FatherElijah
"Man projects his wounds upon the world, my friend. He judges everything, and in the judging he reveals himself." #MichaelDOBrien #FatherElijah
"To do the right thing is to speak a word, and to shift, a little, the balance of the world." #MichaelDOBrien #SophiaHouse
"I have cried all cries; I have raged all rage. I am empty now." #MichaelDOBrien #SophiaHouse #PrayForAmerica
"As he observed the motions in the heavens, he pondered, as he had so often during his life, the question of why people had ceased to look upward." #MichaelDOBrien #SophiaHouse
"We cannot take up the weapons of evil in order to defeat evil. To do so, even in the defense of good, would be to be doubly defeated." #MichaelDOBrien #FatherElijah
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"I know of One who is coming, One who conquers with a Word. He puts forth his foot not to crack a neck, but to bream a tomb, and crushes with his foot the Lie. Will you not pray with me to him and hasten the coming of his day?" #MichaelDOBrien #SophiaHouse
"Who is stronger: one who is ruled by fear and must hold a weapon to prove his false invincibility? Or one who stands powerless with peace reigning in his soul?" #MichaelDOBrien #SophiaHouse
"Look around you! Do we not live and move and have our being upon the face of a miracle?" #MichaelDOBrien #SophiaHouse
"In all the world is there one soul who will waste his life for God, who will speak of Light? The Light who is born not once but over and over in every soul that waits." #MichaelDOBrien #SophiaHouse
