Jodie Man

“The world is full of talkers, but it is rare to find anyone who listens. And I assure you that you can pick up more information when you are listening than when you are talking.”
― E.B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan

“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

“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

“He leaves the creature to stand up on its own legs--to carry out from the will alone duties which have lost all relish. It is during such trough periods, much more than during the peak periods, that it is growing into the sort of creature He wants it to be.”
― C.s Lewis, The Screwtape Letters