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It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.

Oswald Chambers

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Oswald Chambers
Age: 43 †
Born: 1874
Born: July 24
Died: 1917
Died: November 15
Author
Theologian
Writer
Aiberdeen
Amazing
Sin
Easy
Truth
Perilously
Sympathy
Remain

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