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Source: The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition

“It is always the novice who exaggerates.”

Book:The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast

Source: The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast

“There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them.”

Thinking Men Want Mind Humans Happens Enemy Focus Anxiety Concerned Suspense Screwtape Letters

Book:Joyful Christian

Source: Joyful Christian

“He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand.”

Want Hands Walks Screwtape Letters

Book:The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition

Source: The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition

“Pilate was merciful till it became risky.”

Merciful Screwtape Letters

Book:Virtue and Vice: A Dictionary of the Good Life

Source: Virtue and Vice: A Dictionary of the Good Life

“Surely you know that if a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that "suits" him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches.”

Ifs Knows Men Next Church Suits Best Things Neighbourhoods Connoisseur Screwtape Letters

Book:Paved with Good Intentions: A Demon’s Road Map to Your Soul

Source: Paved with Good Intentions: A Demon’s Road Map to Your Soul

“All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary”

Turns Mortals Pretending Screwtape Letters

Book:Joyful Christian

Source: Joyful Christian

“Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.”

Years Time Grows Growing Up Ten Hatred Seeds Courtship Sowing Screwtape Letters

Book:The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast

Source: The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast

“Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury. (senior devil speaking)”

Thinking Men Littles Honesty Skills Devil Disappointment Injury Senior Screwtape Letters

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty or mercy which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. Pilate was merciful till it became risky.”

Mean Reality Form Courage Virtue Conditions Honest Honesty Danger Highest Mercy Yield Testing Hypocrite Merciful Chastity Chaste Screwtape Letters

Author:C. S. Lewis

“The worldly person is insane from the point of view of the spiritual person.”

Persons Spiritual Views Consciousness Point Of View Insane Cosmic Worldly Cosmic Consciousness Screwtape Letters

Author:Robert Thurman

“Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they 'own' their bodies—those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!”

Men World Made Body Belief Energy Pleasure Modern Resistance Estates Consent Chastity Screwtape Letters

Book:The Screwtape Letters

Source: The Screwtape Letters

“There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight.”

Feels Believe Two Fall Interest Race Existence Equal Devil Opposites Errors Delight Magician Unhealthy Hail Screwtape Letters

Book:The Screwtape Letters: Letters from a Senior to a Junior Devil

Source: The Screwtape Letters: Letters from a Senior to a Junior Devil

“Courage is the form of every virtue at the testing point.”

“And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others; for where learning makes a free commerce between the ages there is always the danger that the characteristic errors of one may be corrected by the characteristic truths of another.”

Humans May Important Whole Age Race Cutting Generations Danger Errors Human Race Characteristics Deceiving Commerce E Commerce Screwtape Letters

Book:Paved with Good Intentions: A Demon’s Road Map to Your Soul

Source: Paved with Good Intentions: A Demon’s Road Map to Your Soul

“As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.”

Thinking Men Long Doe Matter Action Repentance Screwtape Letters

Author:C. S. Lewis

“The only thing that matters is the theater!”

Matter Time Theater Management My Time Time Management Only Time Best Times Things That Matter Life Time Had A Great Time Managing Time Screwtape Letters Only Thing That Matters Sightseeing Time Is Money Csi Miami

Author:Lily Rabe

“Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard) disagreeable to nearly all the females—and there is more in that than you might suppose.”

Might Certain Century Female Males Characteristics Beard Disagreeable Screwtape Letters

Book:The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast

Source: The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast

“If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit.”

People Ifs Feelings Ill Selfish Occasions Pulpit Unselfishness Screwtape Letters Ill Feelings

Book:The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast

Source: The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast

“A woman means by Unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others...thus, while the woman thinks of doing good offices and the man of respecting other people's rights, each sex, without any obvious unreason, can and does regard the other as radically selfish.”

People Thinking Men Giving Mean Doe Sex Rights Trouble He Man Office Regard Obvious Selfish Doing Good Respecting Others Unselfishness Screwtape Letters Selfish Men Good Office

Author:C. S. Lewis

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