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I believe that every human being is sufficiently depraved that when we get to heaven, no one will be able to say, I merited this.

Dallas Willard

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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
Sufficiently
Heaven
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Humans
Every
Believe
Merited
Depraved

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