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Category: Charles Portis

You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it.

The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner.

I’m white and I don’t dance, but that doesn’t mean I have all the answers.

answers, dancing, life, race, white, wisdom

If I had received good instruction as a child I would be with my family today and at peace with my neighbors. I hope and pray that all you parents in the sound of my voice will train up your children in the way they should go.

parents, parents-and-children, parents-responsibility, raising-children

Tom Chaney would pay for this! I would not rest easy until that Louisiana cur was roasting and screaming in hell!

I confess [Election] is a hard doctrine, running contrary to our earthly ideas of fair play, but I can see no way around it. Read I Corinthians 6:13 and II Timothy 1:9,10. Also I Peter 1:2,19,20 and Romans 11:7. There you have it. It was good for Paul and Silas and it is good enough for me. It is good enough for you too.

calvinism, christianity, presbyterianism, western

I will go further and say all cats are wicked, though often useful. Who has not seen Satan in their sly faces? Some preachers will say, well, that is superstitious “claptrap.” My answer is this: Preacher, go to your Bible and read Luke 8: 26-33