QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape Notes:] “Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years later into domestic hatred.” The Screwtape Letters – XXVI – The Generous Conflict Illusion (First published in The Guardian on 10/24/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The 26th Screwtape Letter was published on Oct. 24, …
CSL Daily 10/17/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape Complains:] “The real trouble about the set your patient is living in is that it is merely Christian. They all have individual interests, of course, but the bond remains mere Christianity.” The Screwtape Letters – XXV – The Enemy Loves Platitudes (First published in The Guardian on 10/17/1941) – – – FACT OF …
CSL Daily 10/10/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape Laments:] “If you try to make him explicitly and professedly proud of being a Christian, you will probably fail; the Enemy’s [God’s] warnings are too well known.” The Screwtape Letters – XXIV – Spiritual Pride (First published in The Guardian on 10/10/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The 24th letter from …
CSL Daily 09/26/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Complains:) “Everything has to be twisted before it’s any use to us [devils].” The Screwtape Letters – XXII (First published in The Guardian on 9/26/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The 22nd Screwtape letter was published on September 26, 1941 in The Guardian (before being released in 1942 as a single book). …
CSL Daily 09/12/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape Boasts:] “Our best weapon—the belief of ignorant humans, that there is no hope of getting rid of us except by yielding [to temptation].” The Screwtape Letters – XX (First published in The Guardian on 9/12/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The 20th letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian on …
CSL Daily 08/30/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Reveals:) “The whole philosophy of Hell rests on recognition of the axiom that one thing is not another thing, and, specially, that one self is not another self. My good is my good and your good is yours. What one gains another loses.” The Screwtape Letters XVIII (Published in The …
CSL Daily 08/08/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The humans live in time but our Enemy [God] 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.” The Screwtape Letters XV (Published in The Guardian on 8/8/1941) – – – …
CSL Daily 08/01/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing … it is irresistible. If even ten per cent of the world’s population had it, would not the whole world be converted and happy before a year’s end?” Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne 8/1/1953 (Published in The …
CSL Daily 07/25/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape Admits:] “I know that the Enemy [God] also wants to detach men from themselves, but in a different way. Remember always, that he really likes the little vermin, and sets an absurd value on the distinctiveness of every one of them.” The Screwtape Letters XIII (Published in The Guardian on 7/25/1941) – – …
CSL Daily 07/18/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Proudly States:) “The only thing that matters is the extent to which you separate the man from the Enemy [God]. It does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing.” The …