A quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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A quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
In his essay, “The Weight of Glory,” C. S. Lewis writes: “It would seem that our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is mean
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