"The Screwtape Letters" Quotes

A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.

Prosperity knits a man to the World. He feels that he is 'finding his place in it', while really it is finding its place in him.

Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.

It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.

She's the sort of woman who lives for others—you can always tell the others by their hunted expression.

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin—real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way.

The safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world, for its own sake, and without caring two-pence what other people say about it, is by that very fact fore-armed against some of our subtlest modes of attack.

The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.