Fervors
C. S. Lewis (in Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer) is expressing his disappointment in the fact that people have improper expectations related to God’s blessings. Specifically, he is here writing about people who try to revive the fervors from the golden days of their conversion or during times of significant growth/blessings.
He says, “…But were those fervors – the operative word is those – ever intended to last? It would be rash to say that there is any prayer which God never grants. But the strongest candidate is the prayer we might express in the single word encore. And how should the Infinite repeat Himself? All space and time are too little for Him to utter Himself in them once.”
He says, “…But were those fervors – the operative word is those – ever intended to last? It would be rash to say that there is any prayer which God never grants. But the strongest candidate is the prayer we might express in the single word encore. And how should the Infinite repeat Himself? All space and time are too little for Him to utter Himself in them once.”
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