This is an excerpt from C.S. Lewis’s famous classic, The Screwtape Letters.  This is an amazing book and this little excerpt I found on The Catholic Thing reminded me of my love for Lewis’s work. 

The True End of Humility – By C.S. Lewis

MY DEAR WORMWOOD, The most alarming thing in your last account of the patient is that he is making none of those confident resolutions which marked his original conversion. No more lavish promises of perpetual virtue, I gather; not even the expectation of an endowment of “grace” for life…

Read the entire excerpt here.

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