“Regeneration is God's disposing the heart to Himself; conversion is the actual turning of the heart to God.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 490.
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Roger Williams (theologian) (1603–1684) English Protestant theologian and founder of the colony of Providence Plantation
Source: A Key into the Language of America (1643), Ch. 21 "Of their Religion"
Context: I was persuaded and am, that God's way is first to turn a soul from its idols, both of heart, worship, and conversation, before it is capable of worship to the true and living God... the two first principles and foundations of true religion, or worship of the true God in Christ, are repentance from dead works, and faith towards God, before the doctrine of baptism or washing, and the laying on of hands, which contain the ordinances and practices of worship; the want of which I conceive is the bane of millions of souls in England and all other nations professing to be Christian nations, who are brought by public authority to baptism and fellowship with God in ordinances of worship, before the saving work of repentance and a true turning to God.
Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki (1173–1235) Indian Sufi
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 263
Richard Baxter (1615–1691) English Puritan church leader, poet, and hymn-writer
The Saints' Everlasting Rest (1650), "The Nature of the Saints' Rest"
“When the heart is open, it's easier for the mind to be turned toward God.”
Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now
Richard Alleine (1611–1681) English clergyman
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 546.
“Turning to God with the deep of the heart is much better than tiring the organs.”
Muhammad al-Taqi (811–835) ninth of the Twelve Imams of Twelver Shi'ism
[Baqir Sharīf al-Qurashi, The life of Imam Muhammad al-Jawad, From the Reality of Faith, 2005]
Ad-Durr an-Nadhīm, p.223.
Abbott Eliot Kittredge (1834–1912) American minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 149.
“Take heart, my friends! There is a God! There is a God!”
Aurangzeb (1618–1707) Sixth Mughal Emperor
Dili, Yarana! Khuda hai! Khuda hai! <br class="br">Aurangzeb during battle with Dara Shikoh Also in Guru Tegh Bahadur, Prophet and Martyr: A Biography by Trilochan Singh [ Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, 1967] p. 98 Also in Heroes of Islam Series: Mohy-ud-Din Alamgir Aurangzeb by Fazl Ahmad [ Sh. Muhammad Ashraf, 1960] p. 54 Also in Aurangzib And The Decay Of The Mughal Empire https://books.google.com/books?id=JodvCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT29 by Stanley Lane Poole [Pickle Partners Publishing, 2014, ISBN 1-782-89473-X] <br class="br">Quotes from late medieval histories
