Screwtape Letters

Things sounded rather well for Screwtape and Wormwood at the end of the first letter. But no letter that has ...

And so it begins. Screwtape Letter #1. Screwtape tells Wormwood to "Teach him to call it ‘real life’ and don’t ...

The Screwtape Letters Study Guide is intended to help you get the most from C.S. Lewis' amazing book. It was ...

How mistakenly now that all is lost you come whimpering to ask me whether the terms of affection in which ...

I sometimes wonder whether you think you have been sent into the world for your own amusement ...

Now this is a ticklish business. We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. ... There ...

Do you not know that bombs kill men? Or do you not realise that the patient’s death, at this moment, ...

Why that creative act leaves room for their free will is the problem of problems, the secret behind the Enemy’s ...

In discussing any joint action, it becomes obligatory that A should argue in favour of B’s supposed wishes and against ...

The horror of the Same Old Thing is one of the most valuable passions we have produced in the human ...

In what state of mind they died, I can learn from the office at this end. That they were going ...

A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician, makes better sport in Hell than a mere common tyrant ...

We fight under cruel disadvantages. Nothing is naturally on our side. (Not that that excuses you. I’ll settle with you ...

The sense of ownership in general is always to be encouraged. The humans are always putting up claims to ownership ...

I note with great displeasure that the Enemy has, for the time being, put a forcible end to your direct ...

It also seems that Wormwood is possibly beginning to see that his mentor, Uncle Screwtape, isn’t really as helpful as ...

Screwtape’s philosophy in this letter comes down to believing that a person is the same as an inanimate object ...

Just when we thought food was a major issue, Screwtape says it’s just something to use in preparation for the ...

The Vicar at the first church meant to make things easy – to the point where he got complacent. At ...

Screwtape seems to be on a roll now. At first there was only one thing to do. Now, he sees ...

Screwtape seems to be on a roll now. At first there was only one thing to do. Now, he sees ...

It seems that something has happened. Talk about how Wormwood “messed up”. What was God’s involvement in this? What are ...

Screwtape talks about wasting time – and even reaching the point of wasting a life. Given that God probably won’t ...

Even fun gets a bad name in Screwtape’s view. What is it about fun & joy – and our choice ...

Being silent when we shouldn’t be – or laughing when we shouldn’t – both are like double edged swords. It’s ...

Do you think Screwtape’s statement, To get the man’s soul and give him nothing in return—that is what really gladdens ...

Screwtape correctly says “It is during such trough periods, much more than during the peak periods, that it is growing ...

Screwtape is giving Wormwood Plan A and plan B. He asks Wormwood what type of man the patient is - ...

Wait a minute here. Wasn't it just in the last letter that Screwtape wrote - Consider too what undesirable deaths ...

We may hope for a good deal of cruelty and unchastity. But, if we are not careful, we shall see ...

Screwtape encourages getting the patient to either react against childhood experiences or to assume a level of prayer far in ...

"Keep his mind on the inner life. ...You must bring him to a condition in which he can practise self-examination ...

Things sounded rather well for Screwtape and Wormwood at the end of the first letter. Letter #2 doesn't start quite ...