A man may as well hew marble without tools, or paint without colors or instruments, or build without … - Joseph Alleine

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People tell me that Senator Edwards got picked for his good looks, his sex appeal, and his great hair. I say to them: How do you think I got the job?

Joseph Alleine

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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For a soul to come to Jesus, is the grandest event in its history.

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Two sorts of peace are more to be dreaded than all the troubles in the world — peace with sin, and peace in sin.

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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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It is one thing to have sin alarmed only by convictions, and another to have it crucified by converting grace. Many, because they have been troubled in conscience for their sins, think well of their case, miserably mistaking conviction for conversion.

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O miserable man, what a deformed monster has sin made you! God made you "little lower than the angels"; sin has made you little better than the devils

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