When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as th…

C. S. Lewis
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When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2009). Weight of Glory, p.43, Harper Collins
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