"For prayer is request. The essence of request,……" — C.S. Lewis

"For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted."

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1,827 Quotes by C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis has 1,827 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I…
One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to…
You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for…
The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of…
We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who,…
Total war is the most humane in the long run.
Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich,…
If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own…
Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.
A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us…
Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.
I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and…

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More Compulsion Quotes

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals. — Lynda Barry
Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his… — Pope Benedict XVI
Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of an under-exercised lab rat in order to hook a rich man and… — Julie Burchill
My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous… — John Cleese
If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion. — Henri Frederic Amiel
To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory… — Eckhart Tolle
The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life… — Albert Schweitzer
Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom. — Ludwig von Mises
I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his… — Bernard Iddings Bell

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