All that we call human history--money, poverty, ambition, wa... - C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"All that we call human history--money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery--[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."

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