When the opposite of your prayer occurs, your prayer hasn't been ignored; it's been considered & refused for your ultimate good. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I don't pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
They tell me, Lord, that when I seem To be in speech with you. Since but one voice is heard, it — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Many people think their prayers are never answered because it is the answered ones they forget. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
At the very least, they can be persuaded that the bodily position makes no difference to their prayers; for they constantly forget[...]that… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Literary Experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege of individuality.. .Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Theology offers you a working arrangement, which leaves the scientist free to continue his experiments and the Christian to continue his prayers. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To forgive the incessant provocations of daily life - to keep on forgiving the bossy mother-in-law, the bullying husband, the nagging wife,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God. But every… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers are sometimes granted, beyond all hope and probability, had better not draw… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you have once accepted Christianity, then some of its main doctrines shall be deliberately held before your mind for some time… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift? — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now? — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not left that… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
To every soul, God will look like its first love because He IS its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. As” — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
“When He died in the Wounded World He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were? — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
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