This week’s Wednesday Words are from C. S. Lewis’ book, The Screwtape Letters. In this book, an older demon teaches a younger demon how to mislead and deceive a believer. Here he tells the younger demon the best way to hinder a believer’s prayer life:
The amateurish suggestions in your last letter warn me that it is high time for me to write to you fully on the painful subject of prayer. . . . The best thing, where it is possible, is to keep the patient from the serious intention of praying altogether.
C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters (p. 15). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.