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You must not lose confidence in god because you lost confidence in your pastor. if our confidence in god had to depend upon our confidence in any human person, we would be on shifting sand.
-Francis Schaeffer
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You Must Not Lose Confidence In God

Francis Schaeffer
You must not lose confidence in god because you lost confidence in your pastor. if our confidence in god had to depend upon our confidence in any human person, we would be on shifting sand.
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