"A man may as well hew marble without tools, or paint without colors or instruments, or build without materials, as perform any acceptable service without the graces of the Spirit, which are both the materials and instruments in the work."

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Source : Joseph Alleine (1700). “A Sure Guide to Heaven”, p.44, Digital Puritan Press

Joseph Alleine

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“That was the turning point. It was as though the signal was there, 'This is the disease you're going to have to work against.' I never really stopped to think about anything else. It was that sudden.”
“Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory.”
“Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.”
“I'm not a celebrity. I don't call myself a celebrity. I'm an actor.”
“Liberalism is moral syphilis. And I'm stepping over it.”
“Zionist willingness to compromise met by Palestinian rejection and Jew hatred.”

Source : Sol Stern (2013). “A Century of Palestinian Rejectionism and Jew Hatred”, p.1938, Encounter Books
“The human heart is the first home of democracy. It is where we embrace our questions: Can we be equitable? Can we be generous? Can we listen with our whole beings, not just our minds, and offer our attention rather than our opinion? And do we have enough resolve in our hearts to act courageously, relentlessly, without giving up, trusting our fellow citizens to join us in our determined pursuit-a living democracy?”

Source : Terry Tempest Williams (2010). “The Open Space of Democracy”, p.83, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“Practicing charity is the best way to evangelize.”

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