Screwtape Literary Analysis
2. Differences of world views: materialism and scientism or Christianity
3. The need for God
4. Prayer and faith
5. The relationship between anxiety and fear
6. Troughs and Peaks that may cause a spiritual battle over your soul
7. The significance of friends and family
8. Temptations that will influence one's heart
9. The ability of being humble
10. The challenges and joys of living life
Top 3
1. Prayer and faith
"Once all his thoughts and images have been flung aside or, if retained, retained with a full recognition of their merely subjective nature, and the man trusts himself to the completely real, external, invisible Presence there with him in the room and never knowable by him as he is known by it-"
2. Differences of world views: materialism and scientism or Christianity
"Don't waste your time trying to make him think that materialism is true! Make him think it is strong, or stark, or courageous-that it is philosophy of the future. That's the sort of thing he cares about"
"Teach him to call it "real life' and don't let him ask what he means by "real".
3. Troughs and Peaks that may cause a spiritual battle over your soul
"Now it may surprise you to learn that in His efforts to get permanent possession of a soul, He relies on the troughs even more than on the peaks; some of His special favorites have gone through longer and deeper troughs than anyone else."
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