The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth…

C. S. Lewis
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The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be a myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history. ✨ C. S. Lewis (1984). The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis, p.314, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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