Screwtape All mortals tend to picture us as putting things into their minds, in reality our best work is done by keeping things out. Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him. The humans live in time but GOD destines them for eternity. The safest road to hell is the gradual one, the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. A moderated religion is no religion at all, its just amusing. If a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighborhood looking for the church that suits him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches. We must picture hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives with the deadly serious passion of envy, self-importance, and resentment. You must therefore zealously guard in his mind the curious assumption 'My time is my own.'
