Screwtape Letters Quotations

Prosperity knits a man to the world.

Pilate was merciful till it became risky.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Suspicion often creates what it suspects.

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

It is always the novice who exaggerates.

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

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

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