When it was animated, it was as if the rock gave out silver lights of mica and rosy crystal under strong light, and as if the dead leaf leapt into flame.
— from 'Doc.' Gordon by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
As in creating a rational creature, there must be holiness to adorn it, as well as wisdom to form the design, and power to effect it; so in the restoration of the creature, as he could not make a reasonable creature unholy, so he cannot restore a fallen creature, and put him in a meet posture to take pleasure in him, without communicating to him a resemblance of himself.
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock
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