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There is a call to spiritual perseverance. A call not to hang on and do nothing, but to work deliberately, knowing with certainty that God will never be defeated.

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
Writer
Aiberdeen
Certainty
Knowing
Call
Spiritual
Nothing
Deliberately
Work
Defeated
Never
Perseverance
Hang

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