FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis was president of the Oxford Socratic Club from it’s founding (1942) until 1955 (when he started teaching at Cambridge). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about ‘misery.’” Letter …
Month: January 2018
CSL Daily 01/30/18
FACT OF THE DAY: First paperback edition of The Last Battle came out on January 30, 1964. It was published as ‘Puffin Books’ by Penguin Books Ltd. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “One cannot be too careful: one must try to hold fast to one’s duties (I wish I did) which are the prose of …
CSL Daily 01/29/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis preached his final sermon, “A Slip of the Tongue” on January 29, 1956. It was preached at Evernsong at Magdalene College. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “For it is not so much of our time and so much of our attention that God demands; it is not even …
CSL Daily 01/28/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The Abolition of Man (released in early January, 1944) is the book Lewis wrote that he claimed addressed “a ‘serious’ point” presented in That Hideous Strength. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is no use to ask God with factious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled …
CSL Daily 01/27/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer was published January 27, 1964; one of the last books Lewis prepared before his death. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Joy is the serious business of Heaven.” Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer (Published on 1/27/1964)
CSL Daily 01/26/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The first meeting of the Oxford Socratic Club was on January 26, 1942. Lewis was the 1st president. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself…as if …
CSL Daily 01/25/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism,” published in Christian Reflections on January 23, 1967 was later re-titled as “Fern-seed and Elephants.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If nothing is certainly right, then of course it follows that nothing is certainly wrong.” De Futilitate (Published in Christian Reflections on 1/23/1967)
CSL Daily 01/24/18
FACT OF THE DAY: All the letters of the alphabet are used for names of the characters in Narnia except one, none of them start with the letter “x.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in …
CSL Daily 01/23/18
FACT OF THE DAY: It was on January 23, 1967 that Christian Reflections (an essay collection) was published. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Unless the measuring rod is independent of the things measured, we can do no measuring.” The Poison of Subjectivism (Published in Christian Reflections on 1/23/1967)
CSL Daily 01/22/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The poem “On Another Theme from Nicolas of Cusa” was published on January 21, 1955 in The Times Literary Supplement. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Our relation to those who trusted us only after we were proved innocent in court cannot be the same as our relation to those who …