C. S. Lewis Quotes

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

When I am praying the most eloquently, I am getting the least accomplished in my prayer life. But when I stop getting eloquent and give God less theology and shut up and just gaze upward and wait for God to speak to my heart He speaks with such power that I have to grab a pencil and a notebook and take notes on what God is saying to my heart.

To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.

I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for.

As you talk to Heavenly Father and pour out your heart to Him, you will draw closer to Him. Then pause, stop, and listen to the feelings of your heart. Seek to understand the promptings of the Spirit. As you pray sincerely, you will come to feel Heavenly Father's great love for you.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words with out a heart.

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

In my opinion, it is a mistake to expect in prayer a response from God. Often, God's response is outside prayer. And often, we do not link up an outside response with the effort we put into prayer.

When I pray, I ask for guidance in my life to be the best person I can be, to learn what I need to learn, and to grow from what I learn.

If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.

Prayer is speaking to God - but sometimes He uses our times of prayerful silence to speak to us in return.

The knowledge of self is the most important thing, because how are you going to know God if you don't know yourself? How are you going to know anything if you don't know yourself?

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

At the profoundest depths in life, men talk not about God but with Him.

Meditate on the Word in the Word.

We keep telling God our opinions; He keeps asking us about our hearts. We'll grow the most when we have the right conversations.

Prayer is a sacred and appointed means to obtain all the blessings that we want, whether they relate to this life or the life to come.

Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak with him, whether the heart is full or empty.

Speak, Lord”; make time to listen. Chastening is more than a means of discipline, it is meant to get me to the place of saying, “Speak, Lord.”

For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.

To feel is to communicate with your Spirit-with God. Feeling is God's mirror; intuition is God's telephone. To seek your truth is to deepen your connection to Spirit.

We cannot really know God if we do not pray.