Jack T. Chick (1924–2016) Christian comics writer
Chick tracts, " And It Was Good! http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1089/1089_01.asp" (2015)
“Sin is the insurrection and rebellion of the heart against God; it turns from Him, and turns against Him; it takes up arms against God.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 546.
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