If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obl…

C. S. Lewis
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If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.' ✨ C. S. Lewis (2003). A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis, p.211, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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