FACT OF THE DAY: “We Have No ‘Right to Happiness’” was first published in the December 21-28, 1963 edition of The Saturday Evening Post. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We depend for a very great deal of our happiness or misery on circumstances outside all human control. A right to happiness doesn’t, for me, …
Month: December 2017
CSL Daily 12/20/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Letters to an American Lady was first released on December 19, 1967 and at the time the name of the lady wasn’t revealed. – – – 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 …
CSL Daily 12/19/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “Screwtape Proposes a Toast” first appeared Dec. 19, 1959 in The Saturday Evening Post. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Democracy is the word with which you must lead them by the nose. The good work which our philological experts have already done in the corruption of human language makes it unnecessary …
CSL Daily 12/18/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’ review of A Lectionary of Christian Prose from the Second Century to the Twentieth Century was published in Theology, December ’39. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Can it really be my duty to buy and receive masses of junk every winter just to help the shopkeepers? If the worst …
CSL Daily 12/17/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “What Christmas Means to Me” was published in the December, 1957 issue of Twentieth Century magazine. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The idea that not only all friends but even all acquaintances should give one another presents, or at least send one another cards, is quite modern and has been forced …
CSL Daily 12/16/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis mentioned “Tolkien’s unfinished sequel to the Hobbit” in the preface of Essays Presented to Charles Williams (a book Lewis edited and published in 1947). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Of all passions the passion for the Inner Ring is most skillful in making a man who is not yet a …
CSL Daily 12/15/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce VI” was published on Dec. 15, 1944 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A jealous man, drifting and unresisting, reaches a point at which he believes lies about his best friend…But errors which are sincere in that sense are not innocent.” …
CSL Daily 12/14/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis gave the annual Commemoration Oration at King’s College on Dec. 14, 1944. His topic was “The Inner Ring.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous.” The Inner Ring (Talk given on 12/14/1944)
CSL Daily 12/13/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “The Vision of John Bunyan” was published on Dec. 13, 1962 in The Listener. It was first a radio talk on the BBC. Hear and “essay chat” podcast on it via my All About Jack podcast. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Allegory frustrates itself the moment the author starts doing …
CSL Daily 12/12/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “Peace Proposals for Brother Every and Mr Bethell” is an article in the December, 1940 issue of Theology. Reprinted in Christian Reflections. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We must be taught that this tent is not home.” Letter to Warfield M. Firor (from Collected Letters, Volume 2 on 12/5/1949)