"The book of Acts is the best aid in approaching our work. We do not find there anyone consecrating himself as a preacher nor anyone deciding to do the Lord's work by making himself a missionary or a pastor. What we do see is the Holy Spirit Himself appointing and sending men out to do the work."

-- Watchman Nee

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“I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?”
“Gansey threw open his door. Gripping the roof of the car, he slid himself out. Even that gesture, Ronan noted, was wild-Gansey, Gansey-on-fire. Like he pulled himself from the car because ordinary climbing out was too slow. This was going to be a night.”
“Was this some new level of depravity? Had he developed a spinster fetish?”
“I had no occasion for an apron on that morning.”

Source : Lizzie Borden, Albert Mason, Caleb Blodgett, Justin Dewey, Massachusetts. Superior Court (Bristol County) (1937). “Trial of Lizzie Borden”
“The trouble is that nonviolence is so often defined as refusal to fight, and that is the American definition of cowardice. In fact, marching unarmed against the guns and dogs of the police requires more courage than does aggression. The perverted idea of manhood coming from the barrel of a gun is what keeps people from understanding nonviolence.”
“Everybody's got the seam of goodness in them, Kit," said Grandpa. "Just a matter of whether it can be found and brought out into the light.”

Source : David Almond (2014). “Kit's Wilderness”, p.76, Hachette UK
“Follow your honest convictions and be strong.”
“I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community.”

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