“Like deathbed conversions, last paragraph soul-saving does not convince.”

“When my father-in-law, Jan Vuijst, a Dutch Reformed minister, was on his deathbed, I had a deeply intimate conversation with him - as it turned out, my last conversation with him. He said to me, 'It was a privilege to have lived.' The soulful gratitude of that simple statement will never leave me.”

“Redemption is as comprehensive as Creation and Fall. God does not save our souls while leaving our minds to function on their own. He redeems the whole person. Conversion is meant to give new direction to our thoughts, emotions, wills and habits.”

“It was like hate on a deathbed.”

“Conversion requires an alteration of the will, and an alteration which, in the last resort, does not occur without the intervention of the supernatural.”

“Emilia," he says, and when he does, it warms me to my soul. "Every day you save me.”