Letter to Dom Bede Griffiths, O.S.B.: from Magdalen College, 16 April 1940
[The practical problem about charity (in our prayers)] is very hard work, isn’t it?
When you pray for Hitler & Stalin, how do you actually teach yourself to make the prayer real?
The two things that help me are
(a) A continual grasp of the idea //that one is only joining one’s feeble little voice to the perpetual intercession of Christ,
who died for those very men
(b) A recollection, as firm as one can make it,
of all one’s own cruelty which might have blossomed,
under different conditions, into something terrible.
You and I are not, at bottom, so different from these ghastly creatures.
* MAKE IT (phrase): succeed in a particular activity;
From Letters of C. S. Lewis
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