“I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.”

— Clive Staples Lewis , book Mere Christianity

Book III, Chapter 11, "Faith"
Mere Christianity (1952)

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Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist 1898–1963

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