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We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do.

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Oswald Chambers
Age: 43 †
Born: 1874
Born: July 24
Died: 1917
Died: November 15
Author
Theologian
Writer
Aiberdeen
Forgetting
Christianity
Danger
Forget
Cannot
Doe

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