St Luke's September Book Club recommendation:
This little book by Christian author C.S. Lewis called “The Screwtape letters” is a real gem and if you haven’t read it yet, get it today. If you have read it, then you know you want to read it again.
C.S. Lewis wrote the book in the form of letters from a senior demon called Screwtape to his demon-in-training-nephew Wormwood to teach him how to bring “the patient” (humans) to hell. Reading this book is like discovering the enemies secret plan of war for our lives. His mission: to destroy us. His tactics are crafty and 82 years after its publication this book is as relevant as ever.
Quote from the Book:
You can make him waste his time not only in conversation he enjoys with people whom he likes, but in conversations with those he cares nothing about on subjects that bore him. You can make him do nothing at all for long periods. You can keep him up late at night, not roistering, but staring at a dead fire in a cold room. All the healthy and outgoing activities which we want him to avoid can be inhibited and nothing given in return, so that at last he may say, as one of my own patients said on his arrival down here, “I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked”.