Truth About God

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Archipelago that it was in prison
where he learned that the line separating good and evil passes not through
states, not through classes, not through political parties, either, but right
through every human heart and through all human hearts.
When we give ourselves serious evaluation, we find things hiding in our
hearts that, if we could choose, we would remove. Our hearts have been
described as "a zoo of lust, a bedlam of ambitions, a nursery of fears, a harem
of fondled hatreds." Yet the Church, by its very nature, must be made up of the
likes of us.
"Imagine yourself as a living house," wrote C. S. Lewis. "God comes in to
rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He
is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on. But
presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and
does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is
that He is building quite a ...

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