No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. Th…

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No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God's hand is on the rein. They all go bad when they set up on their own and make themselves into false gods. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2003). A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis, p.122, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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