Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God.…

C. S. Lewis
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Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help? ✨ C. S. Lewis (1971). The Four Loves, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help? ✨ C. S. Lewis (1971). The Four Loves, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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