The Screwtape Letters Quotes

The Screwtape Letters Quote of the day

Suspicion often creates what it suspects.

It is always the novice who exaggerates.

The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.

When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.

He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand.

Prosperity knits a man to the world.

There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.

Pilate was merciful till it became risky.

Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.

I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.

There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do

The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary.