Robert L. Millet wrote:
“What mortal can snatch pride and selfishness, lust and lewdness from a natural man and create a clean heart in its place? Indeed no man but the Man of Holiness and the Son of Man can do such things; these are works and wonders beyond the power of even the most spiritually mature Saints to do. Servants of the Lord can and do function at their Master’s behest in administering the gospel to the children of men. Legal administrators—agents of the Lord—can and do represent their divine principal in leading lost souls back to the fold of the Good Shepherd. But the miracle of change, the miracle associated with the renovation and regeneration of fallen man, is the work of a God. The true Saints of God have come to know and rely on that transcendent power. ~Robert L. Millet, The Gift of the Atonement (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2002). 77
