I wonder if people who asked for God to intervene in our world, really…

C. S. Lewis
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I wonder if people who asked for God to intervene in our world, really know what they are asking. Will they want to be there when God really does intervene?
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I wonder if people who asked for God to intervene in our world, really know what they are asking. Will they want to be there when God really does intervene?

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