"Saving faith is the faith of God's elect; the special gift of God to them, wrought in them by his Spirit."

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Source : Thomas Boston (1830). “Human Nature in Its Fourfold State: Of Primitive Integrity, Entire Depravation, Begun Recovery, and Consummate Happiness Or Misery, in the Parents of Mankind in Paradise, the Unregenerate, the Regenerate, All Mankind in the Future State, in Several Practical Discourses”, p.143

Thomas Boston

#Special Quotes #Saving Quotes #Spirit Quotes

“Sometimes I guess you need to lose everything before you realize what's really important.”

Source : Karen White (2011). “The Beach Trees”, p.238, Penguin
“I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.
“As a filmmaker coming from one of the youngest lands in the world, New Zealand - safe, green and democratic - I was intrigued by Afghanistan, with its literature and poetry, its old land and its deep history.”
“I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There.”
“Our Navy was very largely sunk. And we were at war in no time at all. I share, in retrospect, the distress we all share at the internment of the Japanese American citizens of the United States. It was not our finest hour. But the Supreme Court had it before it at the time, and justified it and upheld it.”
“But if you really want to get involved in making a difference, you can stay at home with your family and have a job and make a reasonable living without having to be on an airplane all of the time, then you ought to go back home and run for School Board.”
“The daily life is so wearisome; yet duty lies that way.”

Source : Charles Webster Leadbeater (1920). “The Hidden Side of Christian Festivals”
“I've always enjoyed stories that take place in the future but my one disappointment was that the future books described never came. We're not on other planets, there are no flying cars, and the only robots we have in our homes just sweep the floor. So I wanted to write about a future that I thought could really happen. People ask me when I tell them the title of the book, 'Are we all dead?' The good news is, no. We're still here. And I even think the future in my book is strangely hopeful, although I'm sure there will be people who strongly disagree.”

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