Hailey Ziegler’s Reviews > The Screwtape Letters > Status Update

He wants them to learn to walk, and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there, He is pleased, even with their stumbles…Our cause is never more endangered than what a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy’s will, looks round up upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys (40)