There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant…

C. S. Lewis
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There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it. ✨ C.S. Lewis (1960). Mere Christianity
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