tempter uses an appetite we have starved

[EDD]

I'm looking for a quote that goes something like the subject line.

"The tempter always uses an appetite which we have starved."


Thanks a million!

[a_hnau]

Hmm, struggling with this one. Obviously there are places in Screwtape where similar-sounding advice is given by the senior to the junior devil. And Lewis did say "Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes or film stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison."

D'you have any more words, context, clues?

[EDD]

I finally found it in "C.S. Lewis, A Mind Awake"

It reads, in full: "The tempter always works on some real weakness in our system of values: offers food to some need we have starved."

The citation is: 'Equality,' The Spectator, (27 August 1943)

[a_hnau]

Wow, well done!

[Sven]