For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which all members, however different, (and He rejoices in their differences and by no means wishes to iron them out) must share the common life, complementing and helping one another precisely by their differences. β¨ C. S. Lewis (2009). Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950β1963, p.68, HarperCollins UK
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