Quotes from CS Lewis
The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'
- CS Lewis
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.
- CS Lewis
Theology offers you a working arrangement, which leaves the scientist free to continue his experiments and the Christian to continue his prayers.
- CS Lewis
When the opposite of your prayer occurs, your prayer hasn't been ignored; it's been considered & refused for your ultimate good.
- CS Lewis
Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person.
- CS Lewis
I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.
- CS Lewis
We must lay before him what is in us not what ought to be in us.
- CS Lewis
Love is unselfishly choosing for another's highest good.
- CS Lewis
The Prayer that precedes all other prayer is, may the real me meet the real you.
- CS Lewis
Anyone who endeavors to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened. You are embarking on something that is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.
- CS Lewis
I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.
- CS Lewis
The Christian view is that men were created to be in a certain relationship to God (if we are in that relation to Him, the right relation to one another will follow inevitably).
- CS Lewis