C. S. Lewis Quotes

The Devil may also make use of morality.

Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.

One seldom recognizes the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder.

The devil's name is dullness.

We live in a world that is filled with filth and sleaze, a world that reeks of evil. You cannot afford that filthy poison to touch you. Stay away from it. Avoid it.

The better day, the worse deed.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

The Devil invented gambling.

Anyone who tells you to deny yourself is from Satan.

The Devil is fun.

Satan often paints sin with virtue's colors.

The devil is no longer looking for an open door in your life. He will take any crack you give him.

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

The media have, indeed, provided the Devil with perhaps the greatest opportunity accorded him since Adam and Eve were turned out of the Garden of Eden.

Sin rarely seems sin at first beginnings.

Open is the way of Satan; many walk therein.

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.

The small Satan left and the great Satan came.

The devil always has the better tunes!

The devil's main purpose is not to scare us, in a horror-movie way; when we're scared of him, we're alert to him, and that might undermine his plans. Instead, he wants to quietly, subtly lure us into stepping away from God.

Evil is whatever distracts.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!