FACT OF THE DAY: The eighth Screwtape letter was published in The Guardian on June 20, 1941. It has the first mention of Slubgob. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Admits:) “One must face the fact that all the talk about His [God’s] love for men, and His service being perfect freedom, is not (as one …
Month: June 2018
CSL Daily 06/19/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “Membership” was published in the June 1945 issue of Sobornost. Previously it was a talk given in February to the Society of St. Alban and St. Sergius in Oxford. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “How God thinks of us is not only more important, but infinitely more important. Indeed, how …
CSL Daily 06/18/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Daily Readings with C.S. Lewis came out on June 18, 1992. It was republished as C.S. Lewis: Readings for Meditation and Reflection. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not …
CSL Daily 06/17/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The paperback edition of The Personal Heresy by Lewis (with E.M.W. Tillyard) was published on June 17, 1965. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. Remember, though we struggle against things because we are afraid of them, it is often the other way …
[PODCAST] Surprised By Misquotes (William O’Flaherty)
I gave the following short talk on Friday, June 1, 2018 at the Taylor University Colloquium. My brief presentation was part of a variety of academic papers that were presented. The full title of my talk was Surprised By Misquotes: Unexpected Findings from The Misquotable C. S. Lewis. In it, I share some of the unusual …
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CSL Daily 06/16/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s brother, Warren “Warnie” Hamilton Lewis was born on June 16, 1895. He wrote books on French History. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape Advises:] “We want the Church to be small not only that fewer men may know the Enemy but also that those who do may acquire …
CSL Daily 06/15/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s appointment at Magdalen College at Oxford officially began on June 15, 1925 and lasted nearly three decades. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself— to dream that you have waked, washed, and …
CSL Daily 06/14/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis finished his academic studies at Oxford near the end of June, 1923, beginning his exams on the 14th. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Perfect humility dispenses with modesty. If God is satisfied with the work, the work my be satisfied with itself.” The Weight of Glory (Sermon preached …
CSL Daily 06/13/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The seventh Screwtape letter was published on June 13, 1941 in The Guardian. Mentions “Materialist Magician.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: Screwtape States: “All extremes, except extreme devotion to the Enemy [i.e. God], are to be encouraged.” The Screwtape Letters VII (Published in The Guardian on 6/13/1941) More Details about The Misquotable C.S. Lewis
CSL Daily 06/12/18
FACT OF THE DAY: An expanded version of “Bulverism” by Lewis was printed in the June, 1944 issue of The Socratic Digest. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “…Good images of what we really desire…the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a …