C. S. Lewis Quotes

What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?'

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• What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?'

  

  C. S. Lewis
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