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Prayer Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- In worship, God imparts himself to us.
- Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the…
- Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.
- The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.
- For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.
- Theology offers you a working arrangement, which leaves the scientist free to continue his experiments and the Christian to continue his prayers.
- Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers are sometimes granted, beyond all hope and probability, had better not draw hasty conclusions to…
- God doesn't want something from us. He simply wants us.
- Prayer does not change God; it changes me.
- If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now?
- If you have once accepted Christianity, then some of its main doctrines shall be deliberately held before your mind for some time every day. That…
- At the very least, they can be persuaded that the bodily position makes no difference to their prayers; for they constantly forget[...]that they are animals…
- The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'
- To forgive the incessant provocations of daily life - to keep on forgiving the bossy mother-in-law, the bullying husband, the nagging wife, the selfish daughter,…
- Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person.
- It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
- Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of…
- What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these…
- For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.
- If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for…
- All is summed up in the prayer which a young female human is said to have uttered recently: "O God, make me a normal twentieth-century…
- A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.
- We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us.
More Prayer Quotes
- Never pray for justice, because you might get some. — Margaret Atwood
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. — Saint Augustine
- The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of… — Saint Augustine
- There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. — Teresa of Avila
- For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. — Teresa of Avila
- A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds. — Teresa of Avila
- I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer. — Teresa of Avila
- Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the… — Teresa of Avila
- Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not… — Teresa of Avila
- A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
- Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone… — Teresa of Avila