QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Recently (although the outward condition of my life has not changed for the better) it has pleased God to pour into my soul great tranquillity – I may even say gaiety.” Letter to Don Giovanni Calabria (from Collected Letters, Volume 2 on 1/13/1948) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On January …
Month: January 2019
CSL Daily 01/12/19
Learn more about the 1st Annual C.S. Lewis Quotathon. QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Could you, only for a moment, fix your mind on something not yourself?” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce X (Published in The Guardian on 1/12/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The tenth installment of The Great Divorce was published on January 12, 1945; …
CSL Daily 01/11/19
Learn more about the 1st Annual C.S. Lewis Quotathon. QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in this world is a part of God.” What Christians Believe (First Talk from BBC Broadcast on 1/11/1942) – – …
CSL Daily 01/10/19
Learn more about the 1st Annual C.S. Lewis Quotathon. QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The danger of mistaking our merely natural, though perhaps legitimate, enthusiasms for holy zeal, is always great.” Meditation on the Third Commandment (Published in The Guardian on 1/10/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The January 10, 1941 issue of The Guardian included “Meditation on the Third Commandment” …
CSL Daily 01/09/19
Learn more about the 1st Annual C.S. Lewis Quotathon. FACT OF THE DAY: “The Birth of Language” is a poem by Lewis published January 9, 1946 in Punch (it uses planetary imagery). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “May God’s grace give you the necessary humility. Try not to think—much less, speak—of their sins. One’s own are a much …
CSL Daily 01/08/19
Learn more about the 1st Annual C.S. Lewis Quotathon. QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The question is not whether we should bring God into our work or not. We certainly should and must…Each vocation has its peculiar dangers and peculiar rewards.” Letter to Sheldon Vanauken (from Collected Letters, Volume 3 on 1/8/1951) – – – FACT OF THE …
CSL Daily 01/07/19
Learn more about the 1st Annual C.S. Lewis Quotathon. QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.” The Abolition of Man (Published on 1/6/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis spent the first night in his new rooms at Magdalene College, Cambridge on January 7, …
CSL Daily 01/06/19
Learn more about the 1st Annual C.S. Lewis Quotathon. QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved.” The Abolition of Man (Published on 1/6/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On January 6, 1944 The Abolition of Man was first published. It came from a series of lectures from Feb. 1943. – …
CSL Daily 01/05/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “In praying for people one dislikes I find it helpful to remember that one is joining in His prayer for them.” Letter to Mary Van Deusen (from The Collected Letters Of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3 on 1/5/1951) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On January 5, 1945 the ninth installment of (the eventual) The Great Divorce (chapter seven) …
CSL Daily 01/04/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” from “Is Theology Poetry?” (Published in Screwtape Proposes a Toast on 1/4/1965) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The book Screwtape Proposes a Toast, an essay collection, was …