The Screwtape Letters Quotes

“when they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

topic:love self others

“the Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most completely temporal part of time—for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

topic:time future eternity

“We have trained them to think of the Future as a promised land which favoured heroes attain—not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

topic:time future

“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.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

topic:women men

“She's the sort of woman who lives for others—you can always tell the others by their hunted expression.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

topic:women

“Prosperity knits a man to the World. He feels that he is 'finding his place in it', while really it is finding its place in him.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

topic:self satisfaction

“Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can't touch and see.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

topic:reality religion science

“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.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

topic:reality courage virtue

“A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of Heaven as a short cut to the nearest chemist's shop.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

topic:society faith

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