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Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose it is simply a description of what going back is like.

C. S. Lewis

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C. S. Lewis
Age: 64 †
Born: 1898
Born: January 1
Died: 1963
Died: January 1
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