Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.
OSWALD CHAMBERS
OSWALD CHAMBERS
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Oswald Chambers89 quotes“Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.”
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