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God allows hardship in our lives so that our beliefs-those handholds of faith in a troubled world-will became more and more real to us and less and less theory.

Greg Laurie

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Greg Laurie
Age: 71
Born: 1952
Born: December 10
Pastor
Long Beach
California
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