If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward …

C. S. Lewis
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If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious or ambitious as he was before – then I think we must suspect that his 'conversion' was largely imaginary. ✨ C.S. Lewis (1960). Mere Christianity
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If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious or ambitious as he was before – then I think we must suspect that his 'conversion' was largely imaginary. ✨ C.S. Lewis (1960). Mere Christianity

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