Quotes Tagged With :screwtape

Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable....

Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary....

As long as he retains externally the habits of a Christian he can still be made to think of himself as....

His ideal is a man who, having worked all day for the good of posterity (if that is his vocation), washes....

The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary.

Your man may be untroubled about the Future, not because he is concerned with the Present, but because....

The use of fashions in thought is to distract men from their real dangers. We direct the fashionable....

His whole effort, therefore, will be to get the man’s mind off the subject of his own value altogether.....

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