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“At the very least, they can be persuaded that the bodily position makes no difference to their prayers; for they constantly forget, what you must always remember, that they are animals and that whatever their bodies do affects their souls. It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting thing into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.”
― C.s Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

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“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

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“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

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“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

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“And Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why, in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them, in drumming of fingers and kicking of heels, in whistling tunes that he does not like, or in the long, dim labyrinth of reveries that have not even lust or ambition to give them a relish, but which, once chance association has started them, the creature is too weak and fuddled to shake off.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

tags: demon, humanity, nothing, screwtape, soul

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