“Utter loneliness was planted in me then, and sent its deep roots down into me.”
Robin Hobb book Assassin's Apprentice
Source: Assassin's Apprentice
Explaining the function of a Pastor - "Prophetic Birth - A Wednesday Wonder" https://archive.is/20120729114538/www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3456647-prophetic-birth-a-wednesday-wonder All Voices (June 15, 2009)
“Utter loneliness was planted in me then, and sent its deep roots down into me.”
Robin Hobb book Assassin's Apprentice
Source: Assassin's Apprentice
Dwight L. Moody (1837–1899) American evangelist and publisher
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 318.
Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) British writer
Letter to Archbishop Heenan (3 January 1965), quoted in A Bitter Trial: Evelyn Waugh and John Carmel Cardinal Heenan on the Liturgical Changes: Expanded Edition, ed. Alcuin Reid (2001), pp. 69, 71
“O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.”
Evelyn Waugh book Brideshead Revisited
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Charles Grandison Finney (1792–1875) American writer
"Repentance and Impenitence" p. 365
Lectures on Systematic Theology (1878)
Genghis Khan (1162–1227) founder and first emperor of the Mongol Empire
As quoted in Ta'Rikh-i-Jahan Gusha [History of the World Conqueror] by 'Ala-ad-Din 'Ata-Malik Juvaini (ca. 1252-1260), translated by J.A. Boyle (1958), p. 105
Context: O people, know that you have committed great sins, and that the great ones among you have committed these sins. If you ask me what proof I have for these words, I say it is because I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.
James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905) Missionary in China
(A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Five: Refiner’s Fire. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1985, 258).