My friend Erika Franz tipped me off to this amazing video series, C.S. Lewis Doodle. (The embedding feature is disabled, but do check it out.) I haven’t watched them all yet, but I’m impressed with with what I’ve seen so far in the two from The Screwtape Letters. Those videos use the amazing radio theater production, which is now on my wishlist.
Which made me think of my favorite quote from Screwtape and one of my favorite quotes of all Lewis’s works.
The full quote is even more powerful and more challenging:
“This, indeed, is probably one of the Enemy’s motives for creating a dangerous world–a world in which moral issues really come to the point. He sees as well as you do that courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty, or mercy, which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. Pilate was merciful till it became risky.”
We are all “good” until the rubber meets the road. Then we find out who the righteous really are.
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