"But, of course, what mattered most of all was my deep-seated hatred of authority, my monstrous individualism, my lawlessness. No word in my vocabulary...

The perfect surrender and humiliation were undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.
~ C. S. Lewis ~












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