Dennis Ticen

“When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you as an interruption, if you remember yourself and turn to Him with gratitude and praise, you will be — or so it feels— welcomed with open arms. But go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside. After that, silence.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

“The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives—altruistic and selfish, merciful and hateful, loving and bitter.”
― Richard J. Foster, Seeking the Kingdom: Devotions for the Daily Journey of Faith – A Guide to the Spiritual Life: Transformation, Intimacy with God, and Ministry

“Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Joyful Christian

“Phony never led anyone to Jesus.”
― Mark Hall, Thrive: Digging Deep, Reaching Out