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Love Quote by Michael Scott

"When they were in Papua New Guinea, God just totally grabbed a hold of Will's heart and totally changed him. And within three months he was saved and he's never looked back since"

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Conversion narratives love a clean before-and-after, and this line leans hard into that makeover logic. The doubled “totally” isn’t just verbal clutter; it’s a rhetorical highlighter meant to flood the story with certainty. “God… grabbed a hold of Will’s heart” turns faith into a kind of benevolent force-move: physical, sudden, decisive. No ambiguity, no slow processing, no room for the more common messiness of belief. The phrasing sells spiritual change the way a testimonial sells a product: dramatic results, short timeline, permanent satisfaction.

Papua New Guinea does crucial work here, too. It functions as an exoticized backdrop that signals “mission trip,” distance from home, and a supposed proximity to the raw and real. The place name isn’t about PNG so much as what it connotes to an American evangelical audience: frontier, intensity, a setting where ordinary life falls away and Big Decisions happen. That’s the subtextual bargain: remove Will from familiar routines, drop him into a charged environment, and transformation becomes narratively inevitable.

“Within three months he was saved” compresses identity into a deadline, reinforcing a specific Christian framework where salvation is a definable moment rather than a long negotiation. “Never looked back since” is the final seal, a preemptive strike against doubt, relapse, or complexity. The intent reads as communal persuasion: this isn’t only Will’s story, it’s a model offered to listeners as proof that God acts, quickly and permanently, if you just get in the right place and let go.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Scott, Michael. (2026, January 16). When they were in Papua New Guinea, God just totally grabbed a hold of Will's heart and totally changed him. And within three months he was saved and he's never looked back since. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/when-they-were-in-papua-new-guinea-god-just-88331/

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Scott, Michael. "When they were in Papua New Guinea, God just totally grabbed a hold of Will's heart and totally changed him. And within three months he was saved and he's never looked back since." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/when-they-were-in-papua-new-guinea-god-just-88331/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"When they were in Papua New Guinea, God just totally grabbed a hold of Will's heart and totally changed him. And within three months he was saved and he's never looked back since." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/when-they-were-in-papua-new-guinea-god-just-88331/. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.

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