Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.
NUMBER:
4192
AUTHOR:
C S Lewis
QUOTATION:
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.
ATTRIBUTION:
Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer Harcourt, Brace & World 64
