The Screwtape Letters

I picked this book up yesterday, and it's so easy to read that I've kept on reading.  I think you'll probably be seeing several excerpts from me today.  I love the way Lewis's mind worked/(works?  since he's still alive and thinking better than he ever did in the shadowlands?).

Never forget that when we are dealing with

any pleasure in its healthy and normal and

satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the

Enemy's ground.  I know we have won many

a soul through pleasure.  All the same, it is His

invention, not ours.  He made the pleasures:  all

our research so far has not enabled us to produce

one.  All we can do is to encourage the humans

to take the pleasures which our Enemy has produced,

at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He has forbidden.