God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we m…

C. S. Lewis
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God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from. ✨ Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis, Book I, Chapter 5, (We Have Cause to Be Uneasy), 1952.
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God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from. ✨ Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis, Book I, Chapter 5, (We Have Cause to Be Uneasy), 1952.

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