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Many of us refuse to grow where we are put consequently, we take root nowhere.

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Oswald Chambers
Age: 43 †
Born: 1874
Born: July 24
Died: 1917
Died: November 15
Author
Theologian
Writer
Aiberdeen
Many
Consequently
Root
Nowhere
Refuse
Roots
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