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places. A unique hobby is collecting swords, which provides compelling props
for children’s talks. He has always been a fan of martial arts and has trained in
karate for four years.
He has trouble choosing just one favorite passage from the wealth of the
Writings, but includes this quotation from Divine Providence 322 with his
e-mail signature: “Every man may be reformed, and there is no such thing
as predestination. It is a dictate of sound reason that all are predestined to
heaven, and no one to hell; for all are born men, and consequently the image
of God is in them.”
“The stream of Providence moves us,” Ryan says. “Though we incline to
go against it, more work is required to oppose the current than simply to go
along with it.”
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