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In this post-modern culture in which we live - where people question absolute truth - stories are resistant to platitudes they're resistant to me making declarations of truth to them. A story can do that in kind of a Trojan-horse fashion.

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Max Lucado
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 11
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