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The apologist’s evening prayer

Clive Staples Lewis was an Irish-born writer and scholar. An atheist from the age of fifteen he slowly returned to faith in his early thirties. He was a close friend and colleague of J R R Tolkein at Oxford, where he lived for many years. He wrote a number of books but is perhaps best known for The Chronicles of Narnia books.

From all my lame defeats and oh! much more

From all the victories that I seem to score;

From cleverness shot forth on thy behalf

At which, while angels weep, the audience laugh;

From all my proofs of thy divinity

Thou, who wouldst give no other sign, deliver me

Thoughts are but coins. Let me not trust instead

Of thee, their thin-worn image of my head.

From all me thoughts, even from my thoughts of thee

O thou fair Silence, fall, and set me free.

Lord of the narrow gate and the needle’s eye,

Take me from all my trumpery lest I die.

C S Lewis (1898–1963)