Enjoying Lewis
I finally sprang for the Lewis collection--in part because Logos extended my payment plan. I am enjoying if more than I thought I would. I did a search for "prayer, pray, ask" in the Lewis collection and found a number of entries I had no idea Lewis said. Here are a couple:
“Praying for particular things,” said I, “always seems to me like advising God how to run the world. Wouldn’t it be wiser to assume that He knows best?” “On the same principle,” said he, “I suppose you never ask a man next to you to pass the salt, because God knows best whether you ought to have salt or not. And I suppose you never take an umbrella, because God knows best whether you ought to be wet or dry.” “That’s quite different,” I protested. “I don’t see why,” said he. “The odd thing is that He should let us influence the course of events at all. But since He lets us do it in one way I don’t see why He shouldn’t let us do it in the other.”
God in the Dock, “Scraps” (1945), para. 4, p. 217. Jerry Root and Wayne Martindale, The Quotable Lewis (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale, 2010).
I must often be glad that certain past prayers of my own were not granted.
Christian Reflections, “Petitionary Prayer: A Problem Without an Answer” (1953), chap. 12, para. 8, p. 144. Jerry Root and Wayne Martindale, The Quotable Lewis (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale, 2010).
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