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“Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes.” quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer — Download Open image

“Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes.”

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