QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Prudence means practical common sense, taking the trouble to think out what you are doing and what is likely to come of it.” The ‘Cardinal Virtues’ (Reading for March 13th in The Business of Heaven) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On March 15, 1984 The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from …
Month: March 2019
CSL Daily 03/12/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “God is love, and that love works through men— especially through the whole community of Christians.” Good Infection (Initially a BBC broadcast from 3/7/44) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On March 12, 1919 Lewis presented a paper to the Marlets on the textile designer, artist, writer and Utopian socialist, William Morris. – – – PURCHASE The Misquotable …
CSL Daily 03/11/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XVII (Published in The Guardian on 3/2/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On March 11, 1936 Lewis wrote to Charles Williams for …
CSL Daily 03/10/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Nothing, not even the best and noblest, can go on as it now is. Nothing, not even what is lowest and most bestial, will not be raised again if it submits to death.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XVIII (Published in The Guardian on 3/9/1945) – – – FACT OF THE …
CSL Daily 03/09/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is no use to say `Lord, Lord’, if we do not do what Christ tells us.” Mr C. S. Lewis on Christianity (published in The Listener 3/9/44) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: 18th installment of the eventual book The Great Divorce was published in The Guardian on March 9, 1945. It was the first …
CSL Daily 03/08/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The words ‘God is love’ have no real meaning unless God contains at least two Persons.” Good Infection (Initially a BBC broadcast from 3/7/44) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: In March, 1948 Lewis began writing his autobiography Surprised by Joy, but it wasn’t published until 1955. – – – PURCHASE The …
CSL Daily 03/07/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is quite right to go away from [the words of the Bible] for a moment in order to make some special point clear. But you must always go back.” Good Infection (Initially a BBC broadcast from 3/7/44) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Good Infection, the third of the …
CSL Daily 03/06/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Once we have accepted an omniscient & providential God, the distinction we used to draw between the significant and the fortuitous must either break down or be restated in some v. much subtler form.” Letter to Sheldon Vanauken 3/6/1955 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – FACT OF …
CSL Daily 03/05/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility.” Christianity and Culture (Published in March 1940 in Theology) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On March 5, 1908, when Lewis was just 9, he recorded in his diary that he had read Paradise Lost. – – – PURCHASE The Misquotable C.S. …
CSL Daily 03/04/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I believe no angel ever appears in Scripture without exciting terror: they always have to begin by saying ‘Fear not.’” Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne 3/4/1953 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C.S. Lewis became available for the …