The Christian has a great advantage over other men, not by being less …

C. S. Lewis
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The Christian has a great advantage over other men, not by being less fallen than they, nor less doomed to live in a fallen world, but by knowing that he is a fallen man in a fallen world. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2002). The World's Last Night: And Other Essays, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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The Christian has a great advantage over other men, not by being less fallen than they, nor less doomed to live in a fallen world, but by knowing that he is a fallen man in a fallen world. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2002). The World's Last Night: And Other Essays, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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