Monday, September 10, 2012

Screwtape 22-25

Chapter 22
The whole place wreaks of that deadly odour. The very gardener, though he has only been there five years, is beginning to acquire it. Even guests, after a weekend visit, carry some of the smell away with them. The dog and the cat are tainted with it.

Chapter 23
For a long time it will be impossible to remove spirituality from his life. Very well then; we must corrupt it.

Chapter 24
He must be made to feel (he’d better not put it into words) ‘how different we Christians are’; and by ‘we Christians’ he must really, but unknowingly, mean ‘my set’; and by ‘my set’ he must mean not ‘The people who, in their charity and humility, have accepted me’, but ‘The people with whom I associate by right’.

Chapter 25
The horror of the Same Old Thing is one of the most valuable passions we have produced in the human heart---an endless source of heresies in religion, folly in counsel, infidelity in marriage, and inconstancy in friendship

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