I took a break from Atlas to finish The Screwtape Letters. C.S. Lewis is just so brilliant; everything he writes is amazing. It was a short book, a little scary, and definitely convicting.
Some favorite lines:
1. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.
2. "...so that a faith which is destroyed by a war or a pestilence cannot really have been worth the trouble of destroying."
3. It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.
4. 'To be' means 'to be in competition'.
5. "Love will be held to excuse a man from all the guilt, and to protect him from all the consequences..."(hint: this is bad)
Remember that all these lines are coming from the devil and therefore may be backward or its describing how the world is and not how it should be or maybe its representing what God had in mind; therefore i guess you really need the context around it but you'll just need to decide for yourselves.
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