# Quote — C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

> Feed him on minor poets and fifthrate novelists until you have made him believe that “Love” is irresistible. . . . There must be several young women who would render the Christian life intensely difficult to him if only you could persuade him to marry one of them.

- Author: [C. S. Lewis](https://www.leafyquotes.com/c-s-lewis.md)
- Book: [The Screwtape Letters](https://www.leafyquotes.com/c-s-lewis/the-screwtape-letters.md)
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> The Enemy allows this disappointment to occur on the threshold of every human endeavour. It occurs when the boy who has been enchanted in the nursery by Stories from the Odyssey buckles down to really learning Greek. It occurs when lovers have got married and begin the real task of learning to live together. In every department of life it marks the transition from dreaming aspiration to laborious doing.

p. 17 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/c-s-lewis/the-screwtape-letters/the-enemy-allows.md)

> A sensible human once said, "If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit"; and again, "She's the sort of woman who lives for others — you can always tell the others by their hunted expression."

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