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'I have chosen you!' Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you.

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Oswald Chambers
Age: 43 †
Born: 1874
Born: July 24
Died: 1917
Died: November 15
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Theologian
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Aiberdeen
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