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Screwtape: Letter 4

Important Quotations: Quote #1

"...mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out."

Prayer

Relevance to Us

Quote #2

Screwtape's Advice

Commonly

While the Patient thinks he's doing this...

Screwtape: Superficial is Safe

  • He wants parroted contemplative prayer of the faithful because, in Screwtape's words:
  • “…since it bears bear superficial resemblance to the prayer of silence as practiced by those who are very far taken into the Enemy’s service, clever and lazy patients can be taken in by it for quite a long time. For they constantly forget, what you must always remember, that they are animals and whatever their bodies do affects their souls.”

"..you must keep him praying to it—to the thing that he has made, not to the Person who has made him"

la. la. la

Prayer:

  • Purposes of Prayer - we know them; we use most all of them, either vocally or mentally.
  • HOWEVER, our prayer at five v. our prayer with our better developed current faith = different
  • WHY? Because prayer is more than the action, more than the words:
  • Intention and Understanding

I hope she likes my bandana..I wore the special one.

Did I brush my teeth this morning? Jk, not opening mouth just in case

Ugh...I forgot to do calc again.

For Us...We Can Also Speak Without Saying Anything

Even if we are praying:

  • empty requests to an unknown God mean nothing.
  • words of praise without living to praise with love and compassion for God’s world mean nothing
  • petitions for help wihtout believing in its coming mean nothing
  • Foundation before Fake

Screwtape Wants...

  • Don't Pray
  • Misdirect Attention
  • Keep the Patient from knowing God

Manufacturing Feelings, Manufacturing God

  • We make our own image of God and pray to that instead of looking deeper.

We have to come to trust that the Invisible is more than the visible.

Quote #3

"this real nakedness of the soul in prayer"

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