FACT OF THE DAY: On May 31, 1951 Lewis was having dinner with Roger Lancelyn Green and it was on this occasion that he asked him to be his biographer. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I take our emotional life to be ‘higher’ than the life of our sensations – not, of course, …
Month: May 2017
CSL Daily 5/30/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The fifth Screwtape letter was published May 30, 1941 in The Guardian. It talked about Wormwood failing in his duties because of relying on anxiety caused by a war. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape on the Dangers of War:) “One of our best weapons, contented worldiness, is rendered …
CSL Daily 5/29/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Transposition is a sermon Lewis preached on May, 28, 1944 at the chapel of Mansfield College. The text is in The Weight of Glory. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[God] made His own plan or plot of history such that it admits a certain amount of free play and …
CSL Daily 5/28/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis wrote to Sister Penelope on May 28, 1945 stating that his book on Miracles was already finished (it came out May 12, 1947). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I quite agree with you about not using one’s job for propaganda: but once the pupil raises the question I …
CSL Daily 5/27/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “Work and Prayer” is an essay published this month in the May 28, 1945 edition of The Coventry Evening Telegraph weekly paper. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men – things at …
CSL Daily 5/26/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Boxen: The Imaginary World of the Young C.S. Lewis was first published on May 28, 1985. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “…one road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.” The Pilgrim’s Regress (Published 5/25/1933)
CSL Daily 5/25/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The Pilgrim’s Regress: An Allegorical Apology for Christianity, Reason and Romanticism was published on May 25, 1933. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “How God loves us: not because we are lovable but because He is love, not because He needs to receive but He delights to give.” Letter to …
CSL Daily 5/24/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s obituary of Charles Walter Stansby Williams (1886-1945) was published in The Oxford Magazine on May 24, 1945). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Advises:) “Teach them to estimate the value of each prayer by their success in producing the desired feeling.” The Screwtape Letters IV (Published in The Guardian on 5/23/1941) …
CSL Daily 5/23/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The fourth Screwtape letter was published May 23, 1941 in The Guardian. It deal with “the painful subject of prayer.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Boasts:) “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 5/22/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Dangerous Oversight is a poem by Lewis published in Punch on May 21, 1947 and revised and re-titled Young King Cole in Poems. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Only the courteous can love, but it is love that makes them courteous.” The Allegory of Love (Publish 5/21/1936)