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To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meaning is an abomination, for when the word passes beyond understanding the very thing the word stands for passes out of the world and cannot be recalled.

Stephen R. Lawhead

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Stephen R. Lawhead
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: July 2
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Kearney
Nebraska
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