It makes sense that there is no sense without God.
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People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.
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Birth: | 3rd November, 1914 |
Death: | 30th March, 2013 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Author, Evangelist |
Edith Rachel Merritt Schaeffer was born in Wenzhou, China. She was a Christian author and co-founder of L'Abri, a Christian organization which hosts guests. Her book Affliction explores human suffering in a Christian context. It won a Gold Medallion Award from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association in 1979. Her autobiographical The Tapestry: the Life and Times of Francis and Edith Schaeffer won the ECPA award in 1982.
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