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" When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world. "

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" Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ. "

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