Status Updates From The Screwtape Letters

“When they meant to pray for courage, let them really be trying to feel brave. When they say they are praying for forgiveness, let them be trying to feel forgiven. Teach them to estimate the value of each prayer by their success in producing the desired feeling”

“He therefore refuses to carry them, but there mere affections and habits, to any goals which He sets before them: He leaves them to ‘do it on their own’. And there lies our opportunity. But also, remember, there lies our danger. If they get through this initial dryness successfully, they become much less dependent on emotion and therefore much harder to tempt.”

BANG.