Status Updates From The Screwtape Letters

"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."

"To regard the ancient writer as a possible source of knowledge-to anticipate that what he said could possibly modify your thoughts or your behavior-this would be rejected as unutterably simple-minded."

Wow, this has become even truer. How many times have you heard an author completely dismissed because they are an old dead white man?

"Anything, even a sin, which has the effect of moving him close up to the Enemy, makes against us in the long run."

"When...distraction crosses his mind you ought to encourage him to thrust it away by sheer will power and to try to continue the normal prayer as if nothing had happened; once he accepts the distraction as his present problem and lays that before the Enemy and makes it the main theme of his prayers and his endeavors, then, so far from doing good, you have done harm."

"Above all, don't let the young fools notice...If they notice...they will be on the road to discovering that 'love' is not enough, that charity is needed and not yet achieved and that no external law can supply its place."

“Humans are amphibians half animal half spirit”