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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"Whoever desires, for his writings or himself, what none can reasonably contemn, the favour of mankind, must add grace to strength, and make his thoughts agreeable as well as useful. Many complain of neglect who never tried to attract regard."

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Thomas Adams Author, Historian
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"Sense of sin may be often great, and more felt than grace; yet not be more than grace. A man feels the ache of his finger more sensibly than the health of his whole body; yet he knows that the ache of a finger is nothing so much as the health of the whole body."

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Rebecca West Novelist, Journalist
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"The redemptive power of divine grace no longer seemed credible, nor very respectable in the arbitrary performance that was claimed for it."

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Rebecca West Novelist, Journalist
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"The delight we find in art amounts to recognition of a saving grace, to an acknowledgment that the problem of life has a solution implicit in its own nature, though not yet formulated by the intellect."

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Tracy Kidder Author
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"I am grateful to Stacy Schiff first of all because she can write a sentence-because she offers us her scholarship with wit, clarity, and grace. Once again, she has done what only the best writers can do: she has made the world new, again."

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Timothy Keller Pastor, Author
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"Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him."

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Timothy Keller Pastor, Author
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"[T]he main problem in life is sin, and the only solution is God and his grace. The alternative to this view is to identify something besides sin as the main problem with the world and something besides God as the main remedy. That demonizes something that is not completely bad, and makes an idol out of something that cannot be the ultimate good."

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Timothy Keller Pastor, Author
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"So live in the light of the resurrection and renewal of this world, and of yourself, in a glorious, never-ending, joyful dance of grace."

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Sinclair Lewis Novelist
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"When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, 'tain't any laughing matter!"

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"I own I never really warmed To the reformer or reformed. And yet conversion has its place Not halfway down the scale of grace."

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