The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the…

C. S. Lewis
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The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.
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Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2003). A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis, p.175, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.

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