QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I take our emotional life to be ‘higher’ than the life of our sensations – not, of course, morally higher, but richer, more varied, more subtle.” Transposition (Sermon preached on 5/28/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On May 31, 1951 Lewis was having dinner with Roger Lancelyn Green …
Month: May 2019
CSL Daily 05/30/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape on the Dangers of War:) “One of our best weapons, contented worldliness, is rendered useless. In wartime not even a human can believe he is going to live forever.” The Screwtape Letters V (Published in The Guardian on 5/30/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The fifth Screwtape letter was …
CSL Daily 05/29/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[God] made His own plan or plot of history such that it admits a certain amount of free play and can be modified in response to our prayers.” Work and Prayer (Published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph on 5/28/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Transposition is a sermon Lewis preached on …
CSL Daily 05/28/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I quite agree with you about not using one’s job for propaganda: but once the pupil raises the question I think one has a free hand.” Letter to Rhona Bodle 5/28/1949 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis wrote to Sister …
CSL Daily 05/27/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men – things at once rational and animal.” The Pilgrim’s Regress (Published 5/25/1933) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Work and Prayer” is an essay published this month in the May …
CSL Daily 05/26/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “…one road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.” The Pilgrim’s Regress (Published 5/25/1933) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Boxen: The Imaginary World of the Young C.S. Lewis was first published on May 28, 1985. – – – PURCHASE The Misquotable C.S. Lewis
CSL Daily 05/25/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “How God loves us: not because we are lovable but because He is love, not because He needs to receive but He delights to give.” Letter to Genia Goelz 5/25/1952 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Pilgrim’s Regress: An …
CSL Daily 05/24/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Advises:) “Teach them to estimate the value of each prayer by their success in producing the desired feeling.” The Screwtape Letters IV (Published in The Guardian on 5/23/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s obituary of Charles Walter Stansby Williams (1886-1945) was published in The Oxford Magazine on May 24, 1945). – …
CSL Daily 05/23/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Boasts:) “It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.” The Screwtape Letters IV (Published in The Guardian on 5/23/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The fourth Screwtape letter was published May 23, 1941 in The …
CSL Daily 05/22/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Only the courteous can love, but it is love that makes them courteous.” The Allegory of Love (Publish 5/21/1936) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Dangerous Oversight is a poem by Lewis published in Punch on May 21, 1947 and revised and re-titled Young King Cole in Poems. – – – PURCHASE The Misquotable C.S. …