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VernParticipantIn winning souls for the Master,
it is not the first mile of compulsion,
duty or convention that will transform
man and his world, but rather the second
mile of free service and liberty-loving devotion…
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VernParticipantOf all human knowledge,
that which is of greatest value
is to know the religious life of Jesus
and how he lived it
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VernParticipantIt should not be the aim of kingdom believers
literally to imitate the outward life of Jesus
in the flesh but rather to share his faith;
to trust God as he trusted God and to
believe in men as he believed in men
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VernParticipantYou may preach a religion
about Jesus, but perforce,
you must live the
religion of Jesus
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VernParticipantThe progressive
comprehension
of reality
is the equivalent
of approaching
God
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VernParticipantUnless a divine lover
lived in man,
he could not
unselfishly and
spiritually love
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VernParticipantYou cannot put
spiritual joy
under a microscope…
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VernParticipantMan aspires
by worship
to be better
and thereby
eventually attains
the best
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VernParticipantGod is not the mere invention
of man’s idealism; he is
the very source of all such
superanimal insights and values
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VernParticipantReligion stands above science,
art, philosophy, ethics and morals,
but not independent of them
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VernParticipantReligious insight possesses
the power of turning defeat
into higher desires and
new determinations
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VernParticipantLove is the highest motivation
which man can utilize in his
universe ascent. But love,
divested of truth, beauty and goodness,
is only a sentiment, a philosophic distortion,
a psychic illusion, a spiritual deception
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