C. S. Lewis Quotes

But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.

C. S. Lewis

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• But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Men
  • Mean