A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants,' and then preac…

C. S. Lewis
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A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants,' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave ✨ C. S. Lewis (2002). Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants,' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave ✨ C. S. Lewis (2002). Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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