CS LEWIS QUOTE ON PRAYER

Here are 30 quotes by C.S. Lewis on prayer:

“I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. It doesn’t change God. It changes me.”

“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.”

“I think that many of us, when imagining an omnipotent Supreme Being, forget that His omnipotence means that He is not like us, and may have purposes and intentions that we cannot fully understand.”

“God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it—made for Him.”

“Prayer does not change God; it changes me.”

“It is in the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men.”

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

“When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.”

“God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain, but without stain.”

“You pray for a good harvest; pray also for a strong back to carry it.”

“We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade, the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.”

“Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth.”

“In prayer we are admitted to the closest proximity, the most direct access to God.”

“The prayer that focuses on God’s pleasure gives direction to all other prayers.”

“Prayer does not involve overcoming God’s reluctance, but laying hold of His willingness.”

“Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.”

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”

“The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self—all your wishes and precautions—to Christ.”

“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain.”

“People look for passion in prayer as though feelings were the measure of its power.”

“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”

“Let prayer be the key you turn in the lock of God’s treasury.”

“Prayer doesn’t end when we say ‘Amen.’ It only begins.”

“I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless.”

“Prayer refreshes us as we stop and spend time with the One who is our true source of comfort and peace.”

“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness.”

“A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.”

“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”

“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself because it is not there.”

“I think that if God forgives us, we must forgive ourselves.”