"Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God."

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"Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God."

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"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."

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"For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine."

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"Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since."

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"What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth."

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"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."

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