If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for…

C. S. Lewis
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. ✨ C.S. Lewis (1996). Joyful Christian, p.138, Simon and Schuster
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