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Faith is the inborn capacity to see God behind everything.

Oswald Chambers

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Oswald Chambers
Age: 43 †
Born: 1874
Born: July 24
Died: 1917
Died: November 15
Author
Theologian
Writer
Aiberdeen
Everything
Inborn
Capacity
Behinds
Behind
Faith

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