SO GOOD QUOTES

The Bible tells us not to indulge in lusts of the flesh, because God knows how difficult it will be for us to recognize the truth about life if we do.  When people in the Land of Flesh look around, they see nothing but death.  But when people in the Land of the Spirit look around, they see only life—nothing ever dies in the Land of the Spirit.  Then what a foolish thing it is, really, to debate about whether unnecessary physical indulgences are harmful—to wonder whether a little marijuana will do any damage, or whether regular smoking and a little drinking binge now and then is going to matter much.  Every physical indulgence we add to ourselves—and especially the ones that serve mostly to calm our nerves or lift our spirits (things that should never be done by anything material, but only by God)—will just root us all the more inescapably in the Land of Flesh, where there is no life, no kingdom of heaven, no hope in God.

—Dee Pennock,Who is God? Who Am I? Who Are You?