Julie and I talked about The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis in the latest A Good Story is Hard to Find podcast.
This was a good discussion, as this book opens up a lot. A key quote for me was from the eighth letter:
He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.
And later:
Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy’s will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.
