"If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world...

Feelings come and go, and when they come a good use can be made of them, but they cannot be our regular spiritual diet.
~ C. S. Lewis ~












Feelings come and go, and when they come a good use can be made of them, but they cannot be our regu...
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