Art created by Chester Brown. Stolen by ….https://drawnandquarterly.com/author/chester-brown, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Brown.
Yes, they will. That’s why I don’t go there.
“Be still. Vengeance is mine. I will repay.”
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%2012%3A17-19&version=KJV
Yes, it is. Yes, He will.
Turning the other cheek requires self control which is the only control we can have.
Not turning the other cheek means becoming the puppet of our aggressor.
An awful lot of folks who think themselves good will do nothing.
Be one of the few.
In THE BIBLE THE LORD says of evil doers,”Them I will punish. Those who witness them and do nothing I will kill.”
Jane Jacobs, the author of THE DEATH AND LIFE OF GREAT AMERICAN CITIES (whose last book DARK AGE AHEAD is proving all too true now) and my friend taught, “When I see evil being done and do nothing I kill myself.”
Turning the other cheek does not mean being blind.
Many say, “This storm will blow over.”
Yes, eventually it will. However now while the storm is blowing is the hour when action is called for.
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