Anyone who is honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his int…

C. S. Lewis
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Anyone who is honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened: one of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself. That is why an uneducated believer like Bunyan was able to write a book that has astonished the whole world. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2012). The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics, p.74, HarperCollins UK
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