Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
Article: Illustrated London News (11 September 1909)
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
You are much more likely to make your man a sound drunkard by pressing drink on him as an anodyne when he is dull and weary than by encouraging him to use it as a means of merriment among his friends when he is happy and expansive.
-Screwtape
-Screwtape
Book: The Screwtape Letters
The sound rule in the matter would appear to be like many other sound rules—a paradox. Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will be like the grey-faced gin-drinker in the slum; but drink when you would be happy without it, and you will be like the laughing peasant of Italy. Never drink because you need it, for this is rational drinking, and the way to death and hell. But drink because you do not need it, for this is irrational drinking, and the ancient health of the world.
Book: Heretics
French is my heart and loyal and sincere
Is, and shall be, my love of British beer.
Is, and shall be, my love of British beer.
May your beer be laid under an enchantment of surpassing excellence for seven years!
Book: The Fellowship of the Ring
Give strong drink to him who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress; let them drink and forget their poverty, and remember their misery no more.
Book: Prov 31:6-7
I would like a great lake of beer for the King of Kings. I would like to see watching Heaven’s family drinking it through all eternity.
Anyone who refrained from wine to such an extent that he severely tried nature would in some measure incur guilt.
Book: Summa Theologica, II, II; 150, 1