God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. -- C. S. Lewis

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. -- C. S. Lewis