The people who keep asking if they can't lead a decent life without Ch…

C. S. Lewis
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The people who keep asking if they can't lead a decent life without Christ, don't know what life is about; if they did they would know that 'a decent life' is mere machinery compared with the thing we men are really made for. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2014). God in the Dock, p.113, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
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