Earnestness is not by any means everything it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master. (Oswald Chambers)

Earnestness is not by any means everything it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master.

Oswald Chambers

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