The following is part of a series exploring quotations attributed to C.S. Lewis that are questionable for one reason or another. I’ve collected, reorganized, and expanded this material in a book, THE MISQUOTABLE C.S. LEWIS, that is now widely available (Amazon, including the Kindle format, and via Google Books). It examines 75 quotations and so it …
Month: April 2018
CSL Daily 04/21/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “Interim Report” published in The Cambridge Review on April 21, 1956 presented Lewis’s comparison of Oxford and Cambridge. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed. They that are whole need not the physician. Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth …
CSL Daily 04/20/18
FACT OF THE DAY: On April 20, 1942 is when Perelandra was published. It tells of adventures on Venus. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Every joy is beyond all others. The fruit we are eating is always the best fruit of all.” Perelandra (Published 4/20/1943)
CSL Daily 04/19/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Christian Behaviour was first published on April 19, 1943. It is better known for being Book 3 of Mere Christianity. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Hope…a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think) a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the …
CSL Daily 04/18/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Letters of C.S. Lewis, edited, with a Memoir by Warren Lewis was first published April 18, 1966. Originally it began as a biography. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is a curious fact that the advice we can give to others we cannot give to ourselves and truth is …
CSL Daily 04/17/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Will We Lose God in Outer Space? was published in the April 1958 issue of Christian Herald; it’s now known as “Religion and Rocketry,” and best found in The World’s Last Night. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The voice of God indeed daily calls to us; calls to the world to …
CSL Daily 04/16/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis preached “The Grand Miracle” on April 15, 1945 at St. Jude on the Hill Church in London. Now found in God in the Dock. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The question ‘Who is in the right’ (in a given quarrel) is quite distinct from the question ‘Who is righteous?’— for …
CSL Daily 04/15/18
FACT OF THE DAY: While serving in WWI Lewis was wounded by a British shell on April 15, 1918 during the Battle of Arras. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Christian story is precisely the story of one grand miracle, the Christian assertion being that what is beyond all space and time, what …
(CCSLQ-52) – Repeated Failures
The following is part of a series exploring quotations attributed to C.S. Lewis that are questionable for one reason or another. I’ve collected and expanded this material in a book (THE MISQUOTABLE C.S. LEWIS, available from the publisher, Amazon, and via Google Books). That book examines 75 quotations, and so it has information not yet posted here. I’m continuing …
CSL Daily 04/14/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “A Note on Comus” and “Genius and Genius” was published in The Review of English Studies in April in 1932 and 1936 respectively. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “But let us thank God that we are still very far from travel to other worlds. I have wondered before now whether the …