The Screwtape Letters Crossword
Across
- 3. The more claims on life, therefore, that your patient can be induced to make, the more often he will feel _____ and, as a result, ill-tempered.
- 5. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our _____ is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them.
- 7. I know we have won many a _____ through pleasure. All the same, it is [God’s] invention, not ours.
- 9. When they have really learned to love their _____ as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbors.
- 10. All extremes except extreme _____ to [God] are to be encouraged.
- 11. [God] wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their _____.
- 14. All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are _____ to be.
- 16. Wherever there is prayer, there is danger of [God’s] own immediate _____.
- 18. The earliest converts were converted by a single historical fact (the Resurrection) and a single theological doctrine (the _____) operating on a sense of sin which they already had.
- 19. ….you have the delightful situation of a human saying things with the express purpose of offending and yet having a _____ when offence is taken.
Down
- 1. _____, not argument, is your best ally in keeping him from the Church.
- 2. _____ knits a man to the world. He feels he is “finding his place in it,” while really it is finding its place in him.
- 4. The great thing is to direct the _____to his immediate neighbours whom he meets every day and to thrust his benevolence out to the remote circumference, to people he does not know.
- 6. It does not matter how small the _____ are, provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing.
- 7. Teach a man to _____ benefits not that others may be happy in having them but that he may be unselfish in forgoing them.
- 8. No amount of _____in his imagination and affections will harm us if we can keep it out of his will.
- 12. We direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against the _____ of which it is least in danger.
- 13. …_____ is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point…
- 15. Even of his sins, the Enemy does not want him to think too much: once they are _____, the sooner the man turns his attention outward, the better the Enemy is pleased.
- 17. Remember always that He really likes the little vermin, and sets an absurd value on the _____ of every one of them.