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From, For the Love of God<\/i>, by D. A. Carson:<\/p>\n

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\"image\"<\/a>“You\u2019ve seen the bumper sticker: \u201cThe person with the most toys wins.\u201d Wins what? The person with the most toys takes out of this life exactly what everyone else does. A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during our seventy years in this life will not seem too terribly important”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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From, For the Love of God, by D. A. Carson: “You\u2019ve seen the bumper sticker: \u201cThe person with the most toys wins.\u201d Wins what? The person with the most toys takes out of this life exactly what everyone else does. 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