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Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.

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Oswald Chambers
Age: 43 †
Born: 1874
Born: July 24
Died: 1917
Died: November 15
Author
Theologian
Writer
Aiberdeen
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Sound
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Beautiful
Indulgent
Matter
Pits
Self
Beware
Sounds
Came

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