FACT OF THE DAY: The poem known today as The Magician and the Dryad was first published in Punch on July 20, 1949. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The feeling of being, or not being, forgiven and loved, is not what matters. One must come down to brass tacks. If there is a particular sin …
Month: July 2018
CSL Daily 07/20/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Willing Slaves of the Welfare State was published July 20, 1958 in The Observer. It was part of series on Is Progress Possible? Here’s an ESSAY CHAT podcast about it. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as …
CSL Daily 07/19/18
FACT OF THE DAY: On July 19, 1943 “The Anvil” (a BBC radio program) recorded its show with Lewis as one of the guests. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Boasts:) “The safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.” The Screwtape …
CSL Daily 07/18/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The twelfth letter from Screwtape was published on July 18, 1941 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Proudly States:) “The only thing that matters is the extent to which you separate the man from the Enemy [God]. It does not matter how small the sins are provided …
CSL Daily 07/17/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The classic “Meditation in a Toolshed” essay was published on July 17, 1945 in The Coventry Evening Telegraph. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “You get one experience of a thing when you look along it and another when you look at it.” Meditation in a Toolshed (Published in The Coventry Evening …
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CSL Daily 07/16/18
FACT OF THE DAY: An collection of Lewis‘ essays called Timeless at Heart: Essays on Theology was published on July 16, 1987. All were previously published; most found in God in the Dock. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We have seen that every moral judgement involves facts, intuition and reasoning, and, if we are wise enough to …
CSL Daily 07/15/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “It All Began with a Picture” was an essay published in Radio Times on July 15, 1960. It tells how Lewis got the idea for Narnia. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “All my seven Narnian books, and my three science fiction books, began with seeing pictures in my head.” It All Began with a …
CSL Daily 07/14/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Imagination and Thought in the Middle Ages is a talk Lewis gave on two nights in 1956, July 17th and 18th. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[Flippancy] is a thousand miles away from joy; it deadens, instead of sharpening, the intellect; and it excites no affection between those who …
CSL Daily 07/13/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Broadcast Talks was first released in the U.K. on July 13, 1942, containing the first two BBC radio series. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on …