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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
Author
Theologian
Writer
San Angelo
Texas
Heart
Removing
Surgeons
Chest
Chests
Pride
Cracking
Grace
Replacing
Open
Poisoned
Pain
Surgeon

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