You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of…

C. S. Lewis
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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it? ✨ C.S. Lewis (2012). A Grief Observed, p.13, Faber & Faber
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