“Other men have said, "If I could only live, I would establish and perpetuate an empire." This Christ of Galilee says, "My death shall do it." Other martyrs have died in simple fidelity to truth. This martyr dies that He may make His truth mighty over all hearts. He was a man; but was He only a man?”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 70.
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Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 57.

“Christ not only died for all: He died for each.”

“In truth, there was only one christian and he died on the cross.”

Quia et ipsi sunt ego. "Since they too are myself"
Source: On the Mystical Body of Christ, pp. 431-432

Source: 1880s, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (1885), p. 320