FACT OF THE DAY: “Common Decency,” the first BBC broadcast by Lewis was given today (Aug. 6) in 1941. It is better known as “The Law of Human Nature” in Mere Christianity. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Quarreling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. And there would …
Month: August 2016
CSL Daily 8/05
FACT OF THE DAY: “Invocation of Saints” is a letter published today (Aug. 5) in 1949 in Church Times and is now in God in the Dock. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape advises:] “You must therefore conceal from the patient the true end of Humility. Let him think of it not as …
CSL Daily 8/04
FACT OF THE DAY: Today (8/4) in 1922 Lewis earned a first class (highest honors) degree in Literae Humaniores (“Greats”) from Oxford. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape advises:] “Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware …
CSL Daily 8/03
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis resigned from Cambridge this month in 1963 where he held the chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I take it as a first principle that we must not interpret any one part of Scripture so that it contradicts other parts, and specially we …
CSL Daily 8/02
FACT OF THE DAY: “On the Death of Charles Williams” (“To Charles Williams” in Poems) was first published in the August, 1945 issue of Britain Today. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “God’s presence is not the same as the feeling of God’s presence and He may be doing most for us when we …
CSL Daily 8/01
FACT OF THE DAY: Today (8/1) in 1941 the 14th letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian before being in the book The Screwtape Letters. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing … it is irresistible. If even …