Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to …

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Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2002). The World's Last Night: And Other Essays, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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