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The humility that cringes in order that reproof may be escaped or favor obtained is as unchristian as it is profoundly immoral.

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Dallas Willard
Age: 77 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 4
Died: 2013
Died: May 8
Non-Fiction Writer
Philosopher
Translator
Buffalo
Missouri
Dallas Albert Willard
Profoundly
Immoral
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