Ryl

“All she wants is a cup of tea properly made, or an egg properly boiled, or a slice of bread properly toasted. But she never finds any servant or any friend who can do these simple things "properly" -- because her "properly" conceals an insatiable demand for the exact, and almost impossible, palatial pleasures which she imagines she remembers from the past; a past described by her as "the days when you could get good servants" but known to us as the days when her senses were more easily pleased and she had pleasures of other kinds which made her less dependent on those of the table.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“...the prayers offered in the state of dryness are those which please Him best.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“...the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“A nation which has people who can think, that nation already has strength. It is the mind which rules, Eustaquio -- not instinct or habit.”
― F. Sionil José, Dusk