Your real, new self (which is Christ's and also yours, and yours just …

C. S. Lewis
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Your real, new self (which is Christ's and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2009). Virtue and Vice: A Dictionary of the Good Life, p.11, Harper Collins
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