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Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind.

Jerry Bridges

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Jerry Bridges
Age: 86 †
Born: 1929
Born: December 4
Died: 2016
Died: March 6
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Tyler
Texas
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