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“Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back is like.” quote by C. S. Lewis — Download Open image

“Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back is like.”

C. S. Lewis

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If we get better our customers will demand we get bigger.

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