From Screwtape Letters, by C. S. Lewis....
in regards to pleasure:
Supervisor Demon says, "Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its
healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemy's ground.
"I know we have won many a soul through pleasure. All the same, it is his invention, not ours.
He made the pleasures: all our research so far has not enabled us to produce one. All
we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures our enemy has produced, at times,
or in ways, or in degrees, which he has forbidden...
"An ever increasing craving for an ever diminishing pleasure is the formula. To get the man's soul and give him nothing in return-- that is what really gladdens Our Father's heart."
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