“The more spiritual we become, the more normal and human we will be.”

— Witness Lee

Life-study of Ezekiel - p. 52, of Witness Lee - By Living Stream Ministry, ISBN 0-7363-0755-9

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Chinese Christian preacher 1905–1997

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