"You will remember how, as a schoolboy, I had destroyed my religious life by a vicious subjectivism which made 'realizations' the aim of prayer; turnin...
We must lay before him what is in us not what ought to be in us.
~ C. S. Lewis ~
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We must lay before him what is in us not what ought to be in us.
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