FACT OF THE DAY: “On the Reading of Old Books” is an essay first published in 1944 as an introduction to a book edited by Lewis’ friend, Sister Penelope. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you …
Month: February 2017
CSL Daily 2/18/17
FACT OF THE DAY: On February 18, 1938 J.R.R. Tolkien wrote a letter to his publisher to consider Lewis’s manuscript of Out of the Silent Planet. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “To some, God is discoverable everywhere; to others, nowhere.” The Seeing Eye (Published originally as “Onward Christian Spacemen” in the February, 1963 edition …
CSL Daily 2/17/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The Cosmic Trilogy (a collection of all three Sci-Fi books by Lewis) was released in February, 1990. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Christian…does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.” The Practical Conclusion (BBC …
CSL Daily 2/16/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The Screwtape Letters was published in the U.S. on February 16, 1943, but was released in the UK in Feb. 1942. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping …
CSL Daily 2/15/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The final radio talk from the second BBC series was given on February 15, 1942. It is now known as “The Practical Conclusion.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We have to take reality as it comes to us: there is no good jabbering about what it ought to be …
200 Seconds in Hell with C.S. Lewis Episode 4
Do words matter? Of course they do! That’s why Screwtape tells Wormwood to either suggest more negative sounding terms or expressions that people associate with things they don’t like. Words like “complacency,” “unselfishness” and “Puritanical” are help for Hell’s purposes. In this four episode of “200 Seconds in Hell with C.S. Lewis” you’ll be reminded about some …
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CSL Daily 2/14/17
FACT OF THE DAY: A Grief Observed was published for the first time in the US on February 14, 1963, after being released in the UK on 9/29/1961. Also paperbacks of The Screwtape Letters and Mere Christianity (both 1955) in the UK. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Bereavement is not the truncation of married love …
CSL Daily 2/13/17
FACT OF THE DAY: In February 1963 “Onward Christian Spacemen” was published in Show. Lewis disliked the title and it is now known as “The Seeing Eye.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “God…is related to the universe more as an author is related to a play than as one object in the universe …
CSL Daily 2/12/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Letters to Malcolm came out in the US on February 12, 1964. It had been released in the UK at the end of the previous month. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[Charles Williams writes] that sort of book in which we begin by saying, ‘Let us suppose that this …
CSL Daily 2/11/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis spoke on the BBC on February 11, 1949 on “The Novels of Charles Williams.” It was recorded and is also in On Stories. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “To find that one’s emotions do not ‘come to heel’ and line up as stable sentiments in permanent conformity with …