The Christians describe the Enemy (God) as one 'without whom Nothing is strong.' And Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in dreary flickering of the mind...in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them...in the long, dim labyrinth of reveries.
It does not matter how small the sins are, provided their cumulative effect is to edge man away from the Light and out into Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick.
Indeed, the safest road to Hell is the gradual one-the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
- Screwtape [from Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis]
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