"This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost."

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Source : Adam Clarke (1831). “Discourses on various subjects relative to the being and attributes of God, and his works in creation, providence, and grace”, p.301

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“Istanbul and the western and southern seaboards are very Europeanized. But then you have the Kurdish areas, in the southeast. That's Turkey's Middle East, where you have a different society, which itself is changing but much more slowly, where women are maltreated, are expected to have huge families, and are often basically beasts of burden. That is changing - with education, with the movement of people from the southeast to the west and the cities. As with so much in Turkey, you can't expect change to happen overnight.”

Source : "The Turks Today". Interview With Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. October 26, 2005.
“The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.”

Source : "Tor Editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden On the Future of SF Books". Interview with Annalee Newitz, io9.com. August 26, 2009.
“That's what Glocks are. High-precision killing machines that scream "Daddy Issues.”
“Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.”
“Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.'”
“It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.”
“I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.”
“The first thing to say is that the ordinary criminal law in this country, the Human Rights Act, the Children's Act, all of the laws of the country take precedence, but what I'm also saying is that within the context of a secular country, which Britain now kind of is, or at least a country which purports to be relatively equal between religions, there should be some scope for allowing faith communities to govern themselves - subject to it being consensual and subject to everyone's human rights being observed.”

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