Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar. Not everything that Screwtape says should be assumed to be true even from his own angle.
Devil Quotes
Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as though they proceeded from natural causes, are ignorant blockheads.
It is a good sign when the devil makes so much noise and tempest round about the will, it is a sign that he is not within.
There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and healthy interesting in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors, and hail a materialist or a magician with the […]
At Poltersberg, there is a lake similarly cursed. If you throw a stone into it, a dreadful storm immediately arises, and the whole neighboring district quakes to its center. ‘Tis the devils kept prisoner there.
Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the Devil and earthly kings, I should suspect that I worshipp’d the Devil If I thank’d my God for worldly things.
The devil is evil in disguise, particularly in the guise of goodness. Angels are goodness disguised, often wrapped in brown paper bags, so to speak tremendously ordinary. One has to be particularly careful, therefore, in celebrating virtues because virtues, particularly great virtues, can veil great evil. There are terrorists for truth and God and love […]
Mr. Roper said “So now you’d give the Devil benefit of law!” Thomas More replied: “Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil? Mr. Roper said “I’d cut down every law in England to do that!” Thomas More replied: (Roused and excited): “Oh? And when the […]
If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.
Satan promises the best, but pays with the worst; he promises honor, and pays with disgrace; he promises pleasure, and pays with pain; he promises profit, and pays with loss; he promises life, and pays with death. But God pays as he promises; all his payments are made in pure gold.
