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Screwtape: "Certainly we do not want men to allow Christianity to flow over into their political life, for the establishment of anything like a really just society would be a major disaster."

"All sorts of people are fond of repeating the Christian statement that 'God is Love'. But... Of course what these people mean when they say God is love... They really mean 'Love is God'.... but that is something quite different from what Christians mean by the statement 'God is love'. They believe that the living, dynamic activity of love has been going on in God forever and created everything else."

"It is really possible to be carried away by religious emotion... into resolutions which we shall not sinfully but rationally, not when we are more worldly but when we are wiser, have cause to regret. We can become scrupulous or fanatical; we can, in what seems zeal but is really presumption, embrace tasks never intended for us."

"Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted [of us as Christians]. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant taxpayers. We make our returns truthfully. But we dread a ride in the tax. We are very careful to lay no more than is necessary. And we hope - we very ardently hope - that after we have paid it there will still be enough left to live on."