What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Th…

C. S. Lewis
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What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard. ✨ Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer. Book by C. S. Lewis, 1963.
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