Ron Hendrix

“Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith. I don't agree at all. They are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ”
― C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

“It is much easier to pray for a bore than to go visit him.”
― C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

“Our struggle is--isn't it?--to achieve and retain faith on a lower level. To believe that there is a Listener at all. For as the situation grows more and more desperate, the grisly fears intrude. Are we only talking to ourselves in an empty universe? The silence is often so emphatic. And we have prayed so much already”
― C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

“We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us.”
― C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer