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To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.

D. A. Carson

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D. A. Carson
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 21
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Missionary
Philosopher
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Montreal
Quebec
Donald Arthur Carson
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