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To see sin without grace is despair. To see grace without sin is arrogance. To see them in tandem is conversion.

Max Lucado

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Max Lucado
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 11
Author
Theologian
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San Angelo
Texas
Tandem
Conversion
Arrogance
Despair
Sin
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