It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one. ✨ C. S.…

C. S. Lewis
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2002). Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2002). Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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