Tag: C. S. Lewis

  • Screwtape Letters (Part 7)

    C. S. Lewis My dear Wormwood, The most alarming thing in your last account of the patient is that he is making none of those confident resolutions which marked his original conversion. No more lavish promises of perpetual virtue, I gather; not even the expectation of an endowment of ‘grace’ for life, but only a…

  • Screwtape Letters (Part 6)

    C. S. Lewis My dear Wormwood, Obviously you are making excellent progress. My only fear is lest in attempting to hurry the patient you awaken him to a sense of his real position. For you and I, who see that position as it really is, must never forget how totally different it ought to appear…

  • Screwtape Letters (Part 5)

    C. S. Lewis My dear Wormwood, I was delighted to hear from Triptweeze that your patient has made some very desirable new aquaintances and that you seem to have used this event in a really promising manner. I gather that the middle-aged married couple who called at his office are just the sort of people…

  • Screwtape Letters (Part 4)

    C. S. Lewis My dear Wormwood, So you ‘have great hopes that the patient’s religious phase is dying away’, have you? I always thought the Training College had gone to pieces since they put old Slubgob at the head of it, and now I am sure. Has no one ever told you about the law…

  • Screwtape Letters (Part 3)

    C. S. Lewis My dear Wormwood, I am delighted to hear that your patient’s age and profession make it possible, but by no means certain, that he will be called up for military service. We want him to be in the maximum uncertainty, so that his mind will be filled with contradictory pictures of the…

  • Screwtape Letters (Part 2)

    C. S. Lewis My dear Wormwood, I am very pleased by what you tell me about this man’s relations with his mother. But you must press your advantage. The Enemy will be working from the centre outwards, gradually bringing more and more of the patient’s conduct under the new standard, and may reach his behavior…

  • Screwtape Letters (Part 1)

    C. S. Lewis PREFACE I have no intention of explaining how the correspondence which I now offer to the public fell into my hands. There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel…