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Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart - poisoned as it is with pride and pain - and replacing it with his own.
Max Lucado
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Max Lucado
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 11
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San Angelo
Texas
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