"Be Not Too Dignified To Unveil Thine Heart"

...we want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we are now. And if my idea of prayer as "unveiling" is accepted, we have already answered this. It is no use to ask God factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us...And perhaps, as those who do not turn to God in petty trials will have no 'habit' or such resort to help them when the great trials come, so those who have not learned to ask Him for childish things will have less readiness to ask Him for great ones. We must not be too high-minded. I fancy we may sometimes be deterred from small prayers by a sense of our own dignity rather than of God's.

C.S. Lewis
Letters to Malcolm pp.