Thoughts and Quotes of a Curious Mind

I am reading this book "The screwtape letters" and I really need to keep and pass on the insight. Below is the summary and my take on the first four letters, I plan on doing all thirty. It may look like a lot of reading but the spiritual enlightenment is well worth it. The book is prefaced with C.S. Lewis explaining how there are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about devils. One is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them and the other is to disbelieve in their existence. Readers are advised that the devil is a liar. The book is a classic satire that is both entertaining and enlightening. It is about a series of correspondences between a worldly-wise old devil –screwtape(ST) and his nephew wormwood(WW) - a novice demon in charge of securing the damnation of an ordinary young man. 1. In the first letter screwtape(ST) is chiding wormwood on being naïve and trying to convince the patient that "materialis...

I asked God for strength that I might achieve, I was made week that I may humbly learn to obey. I asked for health that I do great things, I was given infirmity that I might do better things. I asked for riches that I might be happy, I was given poverty that I might be wise. I asked for power that I might have the praise of men, I was given weakness that I might feel the need of God. I asked for all things that I might enjoy life, I was given life that I might enjoy all things. I asked for vision that I might control my future, I was given awareness that I be grateful for the now. I got nothing I asked for... but everything I hoped for, Almost despite myself my unspoken prayers were answered, I am among all people most richly blessed. ~Anom