Screwtape Letters Quotes - Page 2

• The humans live in time but our Enemy destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time which they call the Present. For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. Of the present moment, and of it only, humans have an experience analogous to the experience which our Enemy has of reality of whole; in it alone freedom and actuality are offered to them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Reality, Two

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• Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can’t touch and see.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Mean, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Screwtape Letters”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• Courage is the form of every virtue at the testing point.

  Lynn G. Robbins

  Courage, Bravery, Heroic

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• The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.

  C. S. Lewis

  Past, Rays, Frozen

  C. S. LEWIS (1961). “The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast”

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• The man can neither man, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels.

  C. S. Lewis

  Moon, Men, Might

  C. S. Lewis (1995). “The Screwtape Letters”, Bantam Classics

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• Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

  C. S. Lewis

  Gratitude, Fear, Grateful

  1942 The Screwtape Letters, no.15.

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• Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury. (senior devil speaking)

  C. S. Lewis

  Senior, Honesty, Disappointment

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• Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.

  C. S. Lewis

  Time, Growing Up, Years

  C. S. LEWIS (1961). “The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast”

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• The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

  C. S. Lewis

  Adversity, Years, Weather

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Hands, Want, Walks

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition”, p.36, Harper Collins

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Time, Enemy, Eternity

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “Image and Imagination”, p.352, Cambridge University Press

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• The worldly person is insane from the point of view of the spiritual person.

  Robert Thurman

  Spiritual, Views, Insane

  FaceBook post by Robert Thurman from Aug 19, 2013

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• [God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.

  C. S. Lewis

  Faith, Men, Thinking

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• Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility.

  C. S. Lewis

  Humble, Humility, Pride

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Sarcastic, Women, Expression

  Screwtape Letters (1942) no. 26

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Earth, Hell

  1942 The Screwtape Letters, preface.

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• A sensible human once said, "If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit"; and again, "She's the sort of woman who lives for others you can always tell the others by their hunted expression.

  C. S. Lewis

  Expression, People, Feelings

  'The Screwtape Letters' (1942) no. 26

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• Prosperity knits a man to the world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, World, Prosperity

  C. S. Lewis (1995). “The Screwtape Letters”, Bantam Classics

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• Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they 'own' their bodies—those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Energy, World

  C. S. Lewis (1995). “The Screwtape Letters”, Bantam Classics

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• The only thing that matters is the theater!

  Lily Rabe

  Time, Matter, Management

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.

  C. S. Lewis

  Eternity, Concerned

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “Image and Imagination”, p.352, Cambridge University Press

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• What he says, even on his knees, about his own sinfulness is all parrot talk. At bottom, he still believes he has run up a very favorable credit-balance in the Enemy's ledger by allowing himself to be converted, and thinks that he is showing great humility and condescension in going to church with these 'smug', commonplace neighbors at all.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Believe, Humility

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• Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why, in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them, in drumming of fingers and kicking of heels, in whistling tunes that he does not like, or in the long, dim labyrinth of reveries that have not even lust or ambition to give them a relish, but which, once chance association has started them, the creature is took weak and fuddled to shake off.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sweet, Strong, Ambition

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• By this method thousands of humans have been brought to think that humility means pretty women trying to believe they are ugly and clever men trying to believe they are fools. And since what they are trying to believe may, in some cases, be manifest nonsense, they cannot succeed in believing it and we have the chance of keeping their minds endlessly revolving on themselves in an effort to achieve the the impossible.

  C. S. Lewis

  Clever, Believe, Mean

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

  C. S. Lewis

  Arguing, Patient, Argument

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Screwtape Letters”, p.2, Harper Collins

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