“It is NOT that God WANTS His children to suffer! It is that He WANTS the heathen to hear the gospel and be saved! If that means letting the heathen be mean to us for a short time (for which He will GREATLY REWARD US) and a few more of the lost get saved and miss the Lake of Fire FOREVER… Well, God thinks it's a good trade off. Just trust Him!”

—  Kent Hovind

Source: What On Earth Is About To Happen… For Heaven’s Sake? (2013), p. 127

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