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We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.

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Vernon Howard
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 16
Died: 1992
Died: August 23
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Haverhill
Massachusetts
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Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward.
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The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.
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Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.
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Truth does not really hurt, rather it is our resistance to its message that causes us pain.
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Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions.
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When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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