“I'll always say my prayers... and if God doesn't answer them at once I shall know it's because He's planning something better for me.”

“I want to tell you a growing conviction with me, and that is that as we obey the leadings of the Spirit of God, we enable God to answer the prayers of other people. I mean that our lives, my life, is the answer to someone’s prayer, prayed perhaps centuries ago.It is more and more impossible to me to have programmes and plans because God alone has the plan, and our plans are only apt to hinder Him, and make it necessary for Him to break them up. I have the unspeakable knowledge that my life is the answer to prayers, and that God is blessing me and making me a blessing entirely of His sovereign grace and nothing to do with my merits, saving as I am bold enough to trust His leading and not the dictates of my own wisdom and common sense.”

“I know not by what method rareBut this I know, God answers prayer.I know that he has given his WordWhich tells me prayer is always heardAnd will be answered soon or lateAnd so I pray and calmly wait.I know not if the blessing sought Will come in just the way I thoughtBut leave my prayers with him aloneWhose will is wiser than my ownAssured that he will grant my questOr send some answer far more blessed.”

“There doesn't need to be a God for me. There's something in people that's spiritual, that's godlike. I don't feel like doing things just because people say things, but I also don't really know if it's better to just not believe in anything, either.”

“God has three answers to our prayers:1. Yes2. Not yet3. I have something better in mindanonymous”

“HARRINGTON: And God hears your prayer, doesn't he? We hear Joy's getting better....LEWIS: That's not why I pray, Harry. I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me, waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God, it changes me.”