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Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.

Oswald Chambers

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Oswald Chambers
Age: 43 †
Born: 1874
Born: July 24
Died: 1917
Died: November 15
Author
Theologian
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Aiberdeen
Certainty
Mark
Spiritual
Life
Commonsense
Gracious
Uncertainty

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