We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us. ✨ C.…

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We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2002). Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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