All C. S. LEWIS Quotes about “Prayer”

“I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him.”
“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 our own advantage. If we were stronger, we might be less tenderly treated. If we were braver, we might be sent, with far less help, to defend far more desperate posts in the great battle.”
“Prayer does not change God; it changes me.”
“In worship, God imparts himself to us.”
“We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us.”
“The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'”
“The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.”
“If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now?”
“For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.”
“A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.”
“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 girl!" Thanks to our labors, this will mean increasingly: "Make me a minx, a moron, and a parasite.”
“When the opposite of your prayer occurs, your prayer hasn't been ignored; it's been considered & refused for your ultimate good.”
“Many people think their prayers are never answered because it is the answered ones they forget.”
“Prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them.”

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