Questions for Discussion and Reflection - Letter VI

1. What, according to Screwtape is the best way to barricade a human’s mind from God? Do you agree with that suggestion?
2. Why is it so important for us to be concerned with what we do?
3. How should we see the Lord ’s Prayer as saying “Thy will be done?
4. What should be considered as our appointed cross?
5. What should be considered the “spiritual law” involved with the notion of fear?
6. Discuss: “but in all activities favorable to the Enemy bend his mind back on itself.”
7. What difference would it make to fix my attention on the “state called anger” versus the being insulted by somebody?
8.Discus the ways in which “the malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary”.
9.What do you think of this view of a man as a series of concentric circles?
10. Discuss the differences between the Will and the Heart.