Jodie Man

“If he is a big enough fool you can get him to realize the character of the friends only while they are absent; their presence can be made to sweep away all criticism. If this succeeds, he can be induced to live, as I have known many humans live, for quite long periods, two parallel lives; he will not only appear to be, but will actually be, a different man in each of the circles he frequents.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“He really does want to fill the universe with a lot of loathsome little replicas of Himself--creatures whose life, on its miniature scale, will be qualitatively like His own, not because He has absorbed them but because their will freely conform to His. We want cattle who can finally become food; He wants servants who can finally become sons. We want to suck in, He wants to give out. We are empty and would be filled; He is full and flows over.”
― C.s Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“As long as he retains externally the habits of a Christian he can still be made to think of himself as one who has adopted a few new friends and amusements but whose spiritual state is much the same as it was six weeks ago.”
― C.s Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“Keep his mind off the plain antithesis between True and False. Nice shadowy expressions--"It was a phase" --"I've been through all that" -- and don't forget the blessed word "Adolescent”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters