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Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.

Oswald Chambers

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