I may repeat 'Do as you would be done by' till I am black in the face,…

C. S. Lewis
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I may repeat 'Do as you would be done by' till I am black in the face, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbor as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbor as myself till I learn to love God;and I cannot learn to love God except by learning to obey him. ✨ C.S. Lewis (1960). Mere Christianity
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