C. S. Lewis Quotes About Devil

• Above all else , the devil can not stand to be mocked.

  C. S. Lewis

  Devil, Can Not
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  Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

  C. S. Lewis

  Education, Clever, Live Life

• A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said wouldn't be a great moral teacher. He'd be either a lunatic on a level with a man who says he's a poached egg or else he'd be the devil of hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse.

  C. S. Lewis

  Teacher, Jesus, Son

• He (the devil) always sends errors into the world in pairs--pairs of opposites...He relies on your extra dislike of one to draw you gradually into the opposite one. But do not let us be fooled. We have to keep our eyes on the goal and go straight through between both errors. We have no other concern than that with either of them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Religious, Couple, Eye

• There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Fall, Errors

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Screwtape Letters: Letters from a Senior to a Junior Devil”, p.8, HarperCollins UK

• Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Liars, Devil

  "The Screwtape Letters".

• The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Teacher, Inspiration

• Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good - above all, that we are better than someone else - I think we may be sure that we are being acted on, not by God, but by the devil.

  C. S. Lewis

  Religious, Thinking, Devil

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

• You can give the Devil too much or too little attention.

  C. S. Lewis

  Giving, Devil, Attention

• The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There is not one of them which will not make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it is not. If you leave out justice you will find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials "for the sake of humanity", and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Thinking, Justice

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.22, HarperCollins UK

• The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

  C. S. Lewis

  Adversity, Years, Weather

• Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pride, Mind, Devil

• I mean, the more a man was in the Devil's power, the less he would be aware of it, on the principle that a man is still fairly sober as long as he knows he's drunk.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mean, Men, Long

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.46, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic -- to put you off your guard. Only if that fails, do you become aware of them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Giving, Devil, Firsts

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.46, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg - or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool; you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us.

  C. S. Lewis

  Teacher, Jesus, Fall

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury. (senior devil speaking)

  C. S. Lewis

  Senior, Honesty, Disappointment

• I think we must fully face the fact that when Christianity does not make a man very much better, it makes him very much worse... Conversion may make of one who was, if no better, no worse than an animal, something like a devil.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Animal, Men

• The devil loves 'curing' a small fault by giving you a great one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Giving, Devil, Faults

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.111, HarperCollins UK

• There is something in natural affection which will lead it on to eternal love more easily than natural appetite could be led on. But there's also something in it which makes it easier to stop at the natural level and mistake it for the heavenly. Brass is mistaken for gold more easily than clay is. And if it finally refuses conversion its corruption will be worse than the corruption of what ye call the lower passions. It is a stronger angel, and therefor, when it falls, a fiercer devil.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Mistake, Fall

• Devils are depicted with bats' wings and good angels with birds' wings, not because anyone holds that moral deterioration would be likely to turn feathers into membrane, but because most men like birds better than bats.

  C. S. Lewis

  Angel, Men, Birds Wings

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition”, p.6, Harper Collins

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