All the time the joke is that the word "mine" in its fully possessive sense cannot be uttered by a human being about anything. In the long run either [Satan] or God will say "mine" of each thing that exists, and specially of each man.


The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast (ed. 1961)

C. S. Lewis Quotes

All the time the joke is that the word mine in its fully possessive sense cannot be uttered by a human being about anything. In the long run either...

All the time the joke is that the word mine in its fully possessive sense cannot be uttered by a human being about anything. In the long run either...

All the time the joke is that the word mine in its fully possessive sense cannot be uttered by a human being about anything. In the long run either...

All the time the joke is that the word mine in its fully possessive sense cannot be uttered by a human being about anything. In the long run either...