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            It is no good passing this over with some vague, general admission such as “Of course, I know I have my faults.”  It is important to realize that there is some really fatal flaw in you:  something which gives the others just that same feeling of despair which their flaws give you.  And it is almost certainly something you don’t know about – like what the advertisements call “halitosis” which everyone notices except the person who has it.

            But why, you ask, don’t the others tell me?  Believe me, they have tried to tell you over and over again, and you just couldn’t “take it.”  Perhaps a good deal of what you call their “nagging” or “bad temper” or “queerness” are just their attempts to make you see the truth.  And even the faults you do know you don’t know fully. – C. S. Lewis, “How to Get Along with Difficult People,” Eternity 16 (August, 1965): 14.


Biblical Eldership, Alexander Strauch, page 40

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