Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than w…

C. S. Lewis
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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. ✨ C. S. LEWIS (1961). The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast
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