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No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.

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Oswald Chambers
Age: 43 †
Born: 1874
Born: July 24
Died: 1917
Died: November 15
Author
Theologian
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Aiberdeen
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Suffering
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