Paved with Good Intentions: A Demon's Road Map To Your Soul Book

After reading The Screwtape Letters, this was an interesting "field book" of instructions to take a soul.

Favorite quotes: (keeping in mind this is from a devil's viewpoint: the patient is us, the Enemy is God.)

"It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out."

"There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy,"

"You should always try to make the patient abandon the people or food or books he really likes in favor of the 'best' people, the 'right' food, the 'important' books."

"Fun is closely related to Joy - a sort of emotional froth arising from the play instinct."

"A thousand bawdy, or even blasphemous jokes do not help towards a man's damnation so much as his discovery that almost anything he wants to do can be done, not only without disapproval, but with the admiration of his fellows, if only it can get itself treated as a joke."

"...he must be made to imagine that all the choices which have effected this change of course are trivial and revocable." - the gradual desscent

"Catch him at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection 'By jove, I'm being humble' and almost immediately pride - pride at his own humility - will appear."

"When they have really learned to love their neighbor as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbors."

"...thoughts such as Creative Evolution, Scientific Humanism, or Communism,.. fix men's affections on the future, on the very core of temporality."

"We want a whole race perpetually in pursuit of the rainbow's end, never honest, nor kind, nor happy now, but always using as mere fuel wherewith to heap the alter of the future every real gift which is offered them in the present."

"Men are not angered by mere misfortune, but by misfortune conceived as injury."

"Zealously guard in his mind the curious assumption 'My time is my own'. Let him have the feeling that he starts each day as the lawful possessor of twenty-four hours."

"Certainly we do not want men to allow their Christianity to flow over into their political life, for the establishment of anything like a real just society would be a major disaster."

"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."

"He sees as well as you do that courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point..."