Screwtape

Spiritual wisdom from C.S. Lewis in the words of Uncle Screwtape.

[Jonathan R. Bailey @jonathanrbailey]

We don’t choose to become a Christian, we choose to follow Jesus. Becoming a Christian is something that organically happens to us as we follow Jesus.

[Screwtape @ScrewtapeDaily]

Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact?

[Jonathan R. Bailey @jonathanrbailey]

Every profession or artform or craft involves good pain as a key ingredient to the maturation process. https://t.co/ENxuxEcF51

[Screwtape @ScrewtapeDaily]

Are we not willing to surrender and follow Him, like Simon and Andrew, to rearrange our life around Him? ... https://t.co/Ninz4m4I43

[Dwell @dwellbible]

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[Screwtape @ScrewtapeDaily]

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

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

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He [God] cannot ravish; He can only woo.

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Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact?

[Screwtape @ScrewtapeDaily]

Send him all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that "suits" him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches.

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[The enemy] has filled His world full of pleasures . . . Everything has to be twisted before it is any use to us.

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You don't realize how enslaved they are to the pressure of the ordinary.

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Let him have the feeling that he starts each day as the lawful possessor of twenty-four hours.

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

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Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one.

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All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility.

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When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will.

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One must face the fact that all the talk about His love for men, service being perfect freedom, is not propaganda, but an appalling truth.

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We want cattle who can finally become food; He wants servants who can finally become sons.