“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
C.S. Lewis
The very quote I was thinking of when I posted😉
My late mother started me off with Mere Christianity when I was 20, on to Screwtape, the Great Divorce, eventually all of his books. I went through a rebellion stage but Screwtape really had an impact so in a way the devil led me back to God.
She joked that I might be ready for his children’s books in my 50’s!