The Screwtape Letters Quotes

“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

“Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

topic:books lie

“All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

topic:virtue humility

“Humans are amphibians—half spirit and half animal.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

topic:action feeling

“Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

topic:sin hell

“Our cause is never more in danger, than when a human, no longer desiring, but intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

topic:danger obedience

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