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Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.

Catherine Marshall

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Catherine Marshall
Age: 68 †
Born: 1914
Born: September 27
Died: 1983
Died: March 18
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Johnson City
Tennessee
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Prayers
Yield
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