Preface
The Screwtape Letters (1942)
“Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.”
Source: Redemption Ark (2002), Chapter 38 (p. 654)
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Democritus Junior to the Reader
“170. Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
PENN Address (2004)
Context: The scale of the suffering and the scope of the commitment they often numb us into a kind of indifference. Wishing for the end to AIDS and extreme poverty in Africa is like wishing that gravity didn't make things so damn heavy. We can wish it, but what the hell can we do about it?
Well, more than we think. We can't fix every problem — corruption, natural calamities are part of the picture here — but the ones we can we must. The debt burden, as I say, unfair trade, as I say, sharing our knowledge, the intellectual copyright for lifesaving drugs in a crisis, we can do that. And because we can, we must. Because we can, we must. Amen.
"Bad for Good"
Bad for Good (1981)
Context: For the good of believing in a life after birth
For the good of your body so bright
For the good of the search for some heaven on earth
For the good of one hell of a night, for
the good of one hell of a night.
“When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.”
Source: Dawn of the Dead
“many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.”
Source: The Bondage of the Will
