Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending to do our… — C. S. Lewis
Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.
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