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Thomas Boston

"The natural man cannot but resist the Lord's offering to help him; yet that resistance is infallibly overcome in the elect, by converting grace."

Source : Thomas Boston (1812). “Human Nature in Its Four-fold State of Primitive Integrity: Subsisting in the Parents of Mankind in Paradise : Entire Depravation, in the Irregenerate; Begun Recovery in the Regenerate; Consummate Happiness Or Misery, in All Mankind in the Future State : in Several Practical Discourses”, p.161

Thomas Boston

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“I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.”
“Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.”
“It really doesn’t matter how the manager is. If you make a mistake and the manager is calm, you still feel terrible for making that mistake. It helps to have a manager who can be cool but as an individual you tend to be in control of your own emotions.”

Source : Interview with Chris Leo Moynihan, uk.askmen.com. April 8, 2012.
“My biggest influence growing up was Mad magazine, which is a very text-heavy form of visual satire. I didnâ€™t grow up wanting to draw donkeys and elephants with the names of politicians written across them.”
“I am ninety.Â Or ninety-three.Â One or the other.”
“At the end of the day, so many things that we hold so much value with, it just doesn't even mean anything. I really try to stay focused on being really positive.”
“When the death of a disabled infant will lead to the birth of another infant with better prospects of a happy life, the total amount of happiness will be greater if the disabled infant is killed. The loss of happy life for the first infant is outweighed by the gain of happier life for the second. Therefore, if killing the hemophiliac infant has no adverse effect on others, it would, according to the total view, be right to kill him.”

Source : Peter Singer (2011). “Practical Ethics”, p.163, Cambridge University Press
“So are all the kids on the East Coast repeating school next year? Get ready to see a lot of hairy eighth graders. Storm brain drain.”

"The natural man cannot but resist the Lord's offering to help him; yet that resistance is infallibly overcome in the elect, by converting grace."

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