"Conversion is a work above man's power... Never think you can convert yourself. If ever you would be savingly converted, you must despair of doing it in your own strength. It is a resurrection from the dead, a new creation, a work of absolute omnipotence... This is a supernatural work."

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Source : "Alarm to the Unconverted".

Joseph Alleine

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“People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different.”
“Because I became a refugee in Macau during 1941, we had this war in Hong Kong, I fought for the government as an air raid warden for 15 days. Our government surrendered, Hong Kong Government surrendered, so I took a junk and came to Macau in 16 hours and I was a refugee, so that's why I was so much indebted to Macau.”

Source : "Hong Kong Business Tycoon Stanley Ho TalkAsia Interview Transcript". Interview With Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. October 2, 2004.
“Trying to act normal is the most unnatural behavior of all.”

Source : Sharyn McCrumb (2010). “Lovely in Her Bones”, p.39, Ballantine Books
“We always need to remember that behind almost every great moment in history, there are heroic people doing really boring and frustrating things for a prolonged period of time.”
“Debt is a task master to be feared almost as much as the dictators themselves. It has enslaved thousands in its meshes. It has wrecked happy homes.”
“Every cause produces more than one effect.”

Source : "Progress: Its Law and Cause" (1857)
“When I was really young, I shot a lot with my Super 8.”
“My talent was the weapon, the power, the way for me to fight. It was the one way I might hope to affect a man's thinking,”

Source : "Sammy Davis Jr". The Oral Cancer Foundation, February 6, 2008.

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