If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindnes…

C. S. Lewis
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If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often rebuked us and condemned us, He has never regarded us with contempt. He has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2009). A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works, p.20, Harper Collins
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