Noah Reimer’s Reviews > The Screwtape Letters > Status Update

“Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy’s will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished , and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys” pg 40

“Once you have made the World an end, and faith a means, you have almost won your man, and it makes very little difference what kind of worldly end he is pursuing. Provided that meetings, pamphlets, policies, movements, causes, and crusades, matter more to him than prayers and sacraments and charity, he is ours- and the more religious (on those terms) the more securely ours.”