“All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary”
― The Screwtape Letters
― The Screwtape Letters
“The Enemy wants to bring the man to a state of mind in which he could design the best cathedral in the world, and know it to be the best, and rejoice in the fact, without being any more (or less) or otherwise glad at having done it than he would be if it had been done by another. The Enemy wants him, in the end, to be so free from any bias in his own favour that he can rejoice in his own talents as frankly and gratefully as in his neighbour's talents--or in a sunrise, an elephant, or a waterfall.”
― The Screwtape Letters
― The Screwtape Letters
“Suspicion often creates what it suspects.”
― The Screwtape Letters
― The Screwtape Letters
“A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.”
― The Screwtape Letters
― The Screwtape Letters
“You can’t go on “seeing through” things forever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. To “see through” all things is the same as not to see.”
― The Abolition of Man
― The Abolition of Man
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