"If I being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Chrsitian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is more hypocrisy and convention?"
- The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis

"It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out."
- The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis

"What is dangerous is your client taking charge of his eyes. I don't think you yet grasp that if we can trun a man's eyes in teh right direction, he's ours right down to his toenails. Own a man's eyes and you own the man. "
-pg. 9 para. 2, The Wormwood Files: E'mail From Hell by Jim Forest

"The battleground is the human mind. Reshape what he thinks and the deeds you intend for him will follow. There are ideas with wider jaws and sharper teeth than any dragon."
-pg.11 para. 2, The Wormwood Files: E'mail From Hell by Jim Forest

"There are more vegetarians than cannibals in Hell."
-pg.16 last sentence, The Wormwood Files: E'mail From Hell by Jim Forest

"It was my cherished uncle Screwtape who lately pointed out that the New Age movement is a religion best symbolised by the credit card. As he so astutely noted, "they might as well put a sign over the door saying Enlightenment for Sale." Those without credit cards are of little interest."
-pg.17 last paragraph, The Wormwood Files: E'mail From Hell by Jim Forest

"Thanks to the efforts of your predecessors, it is a dogma of contemporary culture that the number-one task in life is to love yourself, period. Every man and woman knows this. In practice this means asserting yourself, being on the lookout for yourself, and under all conditions leading your own life. The language of Love has become the language of narcissism."
-pg.25 first paragraph, The Wormwood Files: E'mail From Hell by Jim Forest

"There is a battery of phrases that can help make abortion more accpetable. I recall one client who always claimed it was "just a clump of cells' she had goten rid of. It never crossed her mind that she too, even at age twenty-five, was also just a clump of cells, only more of them, and would be an excellent definition for human being in general. Why the Enemy should be so attached to these clumps of cells has always been beyond me. No doubt you are aware that the Bible your client's wife put on the coffee table asserts that these clumps of cells are "made in the image and likeness of God."'
-pg. 29 para. 3-4, The Wormwood Files: E'mail From Hell by Jim Forest

"The human loves can be glorious images of Divine love. No less than that: but also no more - proximities of likeness which in one instance may help, and in another may hinder, proximity of approach."
-The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis

"The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distiction a distiction of value ... as if they were candidates for a prize."
-The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis

"Our need love for God is in a different position because our need of Him can never end either in this world or in any other."
-The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis

"Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy. Nature will not verify any theological or metaphysical proposition... she will only help to show what it means."
-The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis

"It would not be home unless it were different."
-The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis

"Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?"
-The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis

"And the likeness we receive by sonship is not that of images or portraits. It is in one way more than likeness, for it is union or unity with God in will..."
-The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis
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