Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simp…

C. S. Lewis
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Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'. ✨ C.S. Lewis (1996). Joyful Christian, p.37, Simon and Schuster
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