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It is only when we see in human souls, taken as germs of power, a future magnitude and majesty transcending all present measures, that we come into any fit conception at all of Christ's mission to the world.

— Horace Bushnell

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Jesus is the true manifestation of God, and He is manifested to be the regenerating power of a divine life.

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Christ wants to lead men by their love, their personal love to Him, and the confidence of His personal love to them.

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Live as with God; and, whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it.

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A true Christian man is distinguished from other men, not so much by his beneficent works, as by his patience.

There never has been a great and beautiful character, which has not become so by filling well the ordinary and smaller offices appointed of God.

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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

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The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

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