Browsing Quotes With Tag: screwtape-letters (26)
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Keep everything hazy in his mind now, and you will have all eternity wherein to amuse yourself by producing in him the peculiar kind of clarity which hell affords.
Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:24 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The trouble about argument is that it moves the whole struggle onto the Enemy’s own ground… by the very act of arguing, you awake the patient’s reason; and once it is awake, who can forsee the result? Even if a particular train of thought can be twisted so as to end in our favour, you will find that you have been strengthening in your patient the fatal habit of attending to universal issues and withdrawing his attention from the stream of immediate sense experiences. Your business is to fix his attention on the stream. Teach him to call it “real life,” and don’t let him ask what he means by “real.”
Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:23 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The devil… the prowde spirite… cannot endure to be mocked.
Speaker: Thomas MoorePosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:21 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.
Speaker: Martin LutherPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:01 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Nowadays even if you could write a prose like Traherne’s, you wouldn’t be allowed to, for the canon of ‘functionalism’ had disabled literature for half its functions.
Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:00 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Humor involves a sense of proportion and a power or seeing yourself from the outside.
Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:00 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!