It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B — C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B — C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B — C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B — C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B — C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
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It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

— C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
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