I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so muc…

C. S. Lewis
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I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2002). Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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