C.S. Lewis, Letters To Malcolm: Chiefly On Prayer Quotes

The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.

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

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

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.

I hope I do not offend God by making my Communions in the frame of mind I have been describing. The command, after all, was Take, eat: not Take, understand.

A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants, ' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave

It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

We had better share our bewilderments. By hiding them from each other we should not hide them from ourselves.