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C. S. Lewis Quotes about Prayer

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When the opposite of your prayer occurs, your prayer hasn't been ignored; it's been considered & refused for your ultimate good.

When the opposite of your prayer occurs, your prayer hasn't been ignored; it's been considered & refused for your ultimate good.

Prayer, Opposites, Ignored

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.

Christian, Prayer, Believe

C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now?

Inspirational, Prayer, Silly

C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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 them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.

Prayer, Order, House

C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.10, HarperCollins UK

Prayer does not change God; it changes me.

Prayer, Doe, Change God

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 may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.

Wisdom, Prayer, Mean

"Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1963.

Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.

Prayer, Helping Others, Giving

The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'

Prayer, Real, May

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.290, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Many people think their prayers are never answered because it is the answered ones they forget.

Prayer, Thinking, People

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.

Christian, Prayer, People

For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.

Prayer, Waiting, Mountain

C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us.

Prayer, Ought, Lays

C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

In worship, God imparts himself to us.

Prayer, Worship, Worship God

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 presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.

Prayer, Wine, Vision

C. S. Lewis (2002). “The World's Last Night: And Other Essays”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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 is why daily prayers and religious reading and churchgoing are necessary parts of the Christian life. We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed.

Christian, Religious, Prayer

C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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 the world--is always Present for Him. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames.

Prayer, Flames, Doe

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.

Wise, Prayer, Essence

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

Inspirational, Prayer, Literature

C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Theology offers you a working arrangement, which leaves the scientist free to continue his experiments and the Christian to continue his prayers.

Christian, Prayer, Miracle

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

Prayer, Essence, May

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.

Prayer, Mind, Sitting

C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.

Christian, Prayer, World

They tell me, Lord, that when I seem To be in speech with you. Since but one voice is heard, it

Prayer, Voice, Speech

C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

Prayer, Mean, Church

Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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.

Girl, Prayer, Mean

C. S. LEWIS (1961). “The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast”

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