Be not deceived, Wormwood, our [demonic] cause is never more in jeopardy than when a human, no longer desiring but still intending to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe in which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.
―The demon Screwtape, from C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters
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