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Sanctification costs to the extent of an intense narrowing of all our interests on earth and an immense broadening of all our interests in God.

Oswald Chambers

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Oswald Chambers
Age: 43 †
Born: 1874
Born: July 24
Died: 1917
Died: November 15
Author
Theologian
Writer
Aiberdeen
Costs
Extent
Temptation
Intense
Interests
Broadening
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Narrowing
Interest
Sanctification
Earth
Immense

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