In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a…

C. S. Lewis
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In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not. ✨ C.S. Lewis (1996). Joyful Christian, p.98, Simon and Schuster
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