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If conversion to christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious or ambitious as he was before – then i think we must suspect that his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.
-C. S. Lewis
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If Conversion To Christianity Makes No Improvement

C. S. Lewis
If conversion to christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious or ambitious as he was before – then i think we must suspect that his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.
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