The Small Sins
C.S. Lewis


 
You will say that these are very small sins; and doubtless, like all young tempters, you are anxious to be able to report spectacular wickedness...It does not matter how small the sins are, provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing...Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

(C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, pp. 64-65)


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