“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.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not.”
― The World's Last Night: And Other Essays
― The World's Last Night: And Other Essays
“I haven't any language weak enough to depict the weakness of my spiritual life. If I weakened it enough it would cease to be language at all. As when you try to turn the gas-ring a little lower still, and it merely goes out.”
― Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
― Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
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