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Alan Watts Quotes: You don't need to try to be God, you are! But if you try to be God it means you don't know you are.
         

You don't need to try to be God, you are! But if you try to be God it means you don't know you are.


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By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we'll lead them to damnation and not salvation.



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