There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it lo…

C. S. Lewis
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There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2003). A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis, p.119, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2003). A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis, p.119, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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