A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no furt…

C. S. Lewis
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A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world-and might be even more difficult to save. ✨ C. S. Lewis (1952). Mere Christianity: a revised and enlarged edition, with a new introduction, of the three books, The case for Christianity, Christian behaviour, and Beyond personality, Scribner Paper Fiction
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