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Screwtape Letters Quotes

Suspicion often creates what it suspects.

Suspicion often creates what it suspects.

C. S. Lewis
Screwtape Letters, Suspicion, Suspects
C. S. Lewis (2002). “The World's Last Night: And Other Essays”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It is always the novice who exaggerates.

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

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

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

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

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

All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary

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

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

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

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

C. S. Lewis
Screwtape Letters, Amusing
C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition”, p.39, Harper Collins

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

C. S. Lewis
Thinking, Earth, Screwtape Letters
1942 The Screwtape Letters, preface.

Prosperity knits a man to the world.

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

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

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

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

C. S. Lewis
Screwtape Letters, Ought
C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.173, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

C. S. Lewis
Men, Tyrants, Screwtape Letters

Pilate was merciful till it became risky.

C. S. Lewis
Screwtape Letters, Merciful
C. S. Lewis (2009). “Virtue and Vice: A Dictionary of the Good Life”, p.9, Harper Collins

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