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<blockquote data-quote="joey_downunder" data-source="post: 58042375" data-attributes="member: 242214"><p>losthope, this quote deserved a separate thread.... try and work out who it is coming from first. </p><p> </p><p><em>If this fails, you must fall back on a subtler misdirection of his intention. </em><em>Whenever they are attending to the Enemy Himself we are defeated, but there are ways of preventing them from doing so. The simplest is to turn their gaze away from Him towards themselves. <strong>Keep them watching their own minds and trying to produce feelings there by the action of their own wills.</strong> When they meant to ask Him for charity, let them, instead, start trying to manufacture charitable feelings for themselves and not notice that this is what they are doing. When they meant to pray for courage, let them really be trying to feel brave. <strong>When they say they are praying for forgiveness, let them be trying to feel forgiven. Teach them to estimate the value of each prayer by their success in producing the desired feeling; and never let them suspect how much success or failure of that kind depends on whether they are well or ill, fresh or tired, at the moment. </strong></em></p><p><em>.</em></p><p><em>.</em></p><p><em>.</em></p><p><em>.</em></p><p><em>.</em></p><p><em>.</em></p><p><em>.</em></p><p><em>.</em></p><p><em>.</em></p><p><em>Did you suspect an uncle demon speaking to his nephew, instructing him how to destroy a christian's ability to pray? </em></p><p> </p><p>From C.S. Lewis' infamous christian novel "The Screwtape Letters". <a href="http://www.mylibrarybook.com/books/676/C.S-Lewis/The-Screwtape-Letters-1.html" target="_blank">The Screwtape Letters by C.S Lewis page 1</a></p><p> </p><p>P.S. I hadn't read that book for a while until last night but, suddenly thought of it and decided to read in bed. I saw that passage and immediately thought of your struggle.... again "just by chance" <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="joey_downunder, post: 58042375, member: 242214"] losthope, this quote deserved a separate thread.... try and work out who it is coming from first. [I]If this fails, you must fall back on a subtler misdirection of his intention. [/I][I]Whenever they are attending to the Enemy Himself we are defeated, but there are ways of preventing them from doing so. The simplest is to turn their gaze away from Him towards themselves. [B]Keep them watching their own minds and trying to produce feelings there by the action of their own wills.[/B] When they meant to ask Him for charity, let them, instead, start trying to manufacture charitable feelings for themselves and not notice that this is what they are doing. When they meant to pray for courage, let them really be trying to feel brave. [B]When they say they are praying for forgiveness, let them be trying to feel forgiven. Teach them to estimate the value of each prayer by their success in producing the desired feeling; and never let them suspect how much success or failure of that kind depends on whether they are well or ill, fresh or tired, at the moment. [/B][/I] [I].[/I] [I].[/I] [I].[/I] [I].[/I] [I].[/I] [I].[/I] [I].[/I] [I].[/I] [I].[/I] [I]Did you suspect an uncle demon speaking to his nephew, instructing him how to destroy a christian's ability to pray? [/I] From C.S. Lewis' infamous christian novel "The Screwtape Letters". [URL="http://www.mylibrarybook.com/books/676/C.S-Lewis/The-Screwtape-Letters-1.html"]The Screwtape Letters by C.S Lewis page 1[/URL] P.S. I hadn't read that book for a while until last night but, suddenly thought of it and decided to read in bed. I saw that passage and immediately thought of your struggle.... again "just by chance" ;) [/QUOTE]
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