These are not my words but they spoke to me. A gift passed on to me, passed on to you. Excerpts and passages from the book, ‘Do Not Leave Quietly’ by Mario Murrillo
Thank you Chelsey.
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“I never work better than when I’m inspired by anger. When I’m angry, I can write, pray and preach well. For then my whole temperament is quickened and my understanding sharpened. And all mundane temptations and vexations depart.”
Martin Luther
“Yes, I am angry. You better be angry too. The right kind of anger is a very good thing.”
Mario Murrillo
“Be angry, and do not sin: do not let the sun go down on your wrath, nor give place to the devil.”
Ephesian 4: 26-27
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“I am not talking about bad people. I’m referring to good people who are in denial.”
“God’s armies are rising and its numbers are growing…Speak now, or forever hold your peace.”
Mario Murrillo
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“Like a muddied fountain in a polluted spring is a righteous man who yields and compromises his integrity before the wicked”
Proverbs 25; 26
“No one calls for justice,
Nor does any plead for truth.
They trust in empty words and speak lies;
They conceive evil and bring forth iniquity.
They hatch vipers’ eggs and weave the spider’s web;
He who eats of their eggs dies,
And from that which is crushed a viper breaks out.
Their webs will not become garments,
Nor will they cover themselves with their works;
Their works are works of iniquity,
And the act of violence is in their hands.
Their feet run to evil,
And they make haste to shed innocent blood;
Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
Wasting and destruction are in their paths.
The way of peace they have not known,
And there is no justice in their ways;
They have made themselves crooked paths;
Whoever takes that way shall not know peace.
Justice is turned back,
And righteousness stands afar off;
For truth is fallen in the street,
And equity cannot enter.”
Isaiah 59:3-8
“So truth fails,
And he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.
Then the Lord saw it, and it displeased Him
That there was no justice.
He saw that there was no man,
And wondered that there was no intercessor;
Therefore His own arm brought salvation for Him;
And His own righteousness, it sustained Him.”
Isaiah 59:14-16
“Since you did not help when you had the chance.”
“You’re not supposed to leave quietly. You’re not supposed to check into heaven with a clean uniform, unsoiled by warfare. You’re not supposed to be canceled.
You’re supposed to make a very special noise. You’re supposed to find your voice, and that voice will cancel the works of satan.”
Mario Murrillo
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“He who sits in the heavens shall laugh;
The Lord shall hold them in derision.
Then He shall speak to them in His wrath,
And distress them in His deep displeasure:
‘Yet I have set My King
On My holy hill of Zion.’
“I will declare the decree:
The Lord has said to Me,
‘You are My Son,
Today I have begotten you.
Ask of Me, and I will give you
The nations for your inheritance,
And the ends of the earth for your possession.’”
Psalm 2:4-8
“Our foes wield astonishing power. They have mountains of money, unlimited connections, and enormous influence. Will they destroy nations and borders? Will they drive the church underground?
It is possible indeed they can plow under the entire moral foundation of America and even the world. They are on schedule for world domination. But there is good news for those who are willing to follow God into battle against the tyranny.
What is God doing? God is laughing. He is laughing at their plans. God is not only laughing at their plans, He will wreck their plans. His wrath will be poured out on their vain imaginings. The word backfired does not begin to cover the next act of God. If God’s army acts, God will act against men who try to bury the church and set up their own kingdom.
Whether this ends, hinges mostly on you and me. If you remain silent. If we remain quiet, then they have already destroyed us and our families.
Follow God into battle. He has plans to destroy their plans. His plans depend on our participation”
Mario Murrillo
Do not leave quietly…
Amen
“There always is this fallacious belief: ‘It would not be the same here; here such things are impossible. Alas, all the evil of the twentieth century is possible everywhere on earth.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918 – 1956
