“"No man can come to Christ except the Father draw him." If he comes asking, that proves he comes drawn.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 151.
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Charles Seymour Robinson 5
American pastor, editor and compiler of hymns 1829–1899Related quotes
"The Airy Christ"
Selected Poems (1962)
A New Kind of Man
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1819; the Spaniards had sent Guerrero's father to plead for an end to Guererro's rebellion. http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/history/jtuck/jtvguerrero.html
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 154.
Golo Mann in his Recollections, quoted in: Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1989), Thomas Mann and his family, p. 187.
“Let the mind of man be blind to coming doom; he fears, but leave him hope.”
Sit caeca futuri
mens hominum fati; liceat sperare timenti.
Book II, line 14 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), 1997 reprint, v. 8, chapter 9, p. 243
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