The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happin…

C. S. Lewis
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The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that they must be free. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2010). A Year with C. S. Lewis: 365 Daily Readings from his Classic Works, HarperCollins UK
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