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The Question and Answer section for The Screwtape Letters is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
From the text:
One of their poets, Coleridge, has recorded that he did not pray "with moving lips and bended knees" but merely "composed his spirit to love" and indulged "a sense of supplication". That is exactly the sort of prayer we want; and...
The connection between thinking and doing is the chain of reasoning that humans are capable of.
From the text:
It sounds as if you supposed that argument was the way to keep him out of the Enemy's clutches. That might have been so if he had lived...
Screwtape notes the the Enemy uses warfare as a blockade. In this instance, specifically the European War.
His blockade is admittedly imposing. Let us therefore think rather how to use, than how to enjoy, this European war. For it has certain...
