“Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.”

—  Clive Staples Lewis , book Mere Christianity

Book III, Chapter 8, "The Great Sin"
Mere Christianity (1952)

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Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist 1898–1963

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