“It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.”

— Clive Staples Lewis, book Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer (1963)

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Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist 1898–1963

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