“The more you obey your conscience, the more your conscience will demand of you.”

—  Clive Staples Lewis, book Mere Christianity

Book IV, Chapter 8, "Is Christianity Hard or Easy?"
Mere Christianity (1952)

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Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist 1898–1963

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