QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The function of allegory is not to hide but to reveal, and it is properly used only for that which cannot be said, or so well said, in literal speech.” The Allegory of Love (Publish 5/21/1936) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Allegory of Love was published on May 21, …
Month: May 2019
CSL Daily 05/20/19
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis spoke on “Religion without Dogma?” on May 20, 1946 before the Oxford Socratic Club. An updated version is in God in the Dock. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[The] scientific method merely shows…that if miracles did occur, science, as science, could not prove, or disprove, their occurrence.” Religion without …
CSL Daily 05/19/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A new Nature is being not merely made but made out of an old one. We live amid all the anomalies, inconveniences, hopes, and excitements of a house that is being rebuilt.” Miracles: A Preliminary Study (Published on 5/12/1947) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: What the Bird Said Early …
CSL Daily 05/18/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A country clergyman wrote to the editor (of The Guardian), withdrawing his subscription on the ground that ‘much of the advice given in these letters seemed to him not only erroneous but positively diabolical.’” Preface to the Second Edition of The Screwtape Letters (Written on 5/18/1960) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: …
CSL Daily 05/17/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of scepticism about scepticism itself.” Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism (Talk given on 5/11/1959) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Planets, a poem by Lewis was first published in the May, 1935 issue of Lysistrata, II. – – – …
CSL Daily 05/16/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Keep his mind off the most elementary duties by directing it to the most advanced and spiritual ones.” The Screwtape Letters III (Published in The Guardian on 5/16/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On May 16, 1941 the third letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian. – – – PURCHASE The Misquotable …
CSL Daily 05/15/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head but don’t be too worried about it. As long as one knows one is proud one is safe from the worst form of pride.” Letter to Genia Goelz 5/15/1952 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) …
CSL Daily 05/14/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is probable that Nature is not really in Time and almost certain that God is not. Time is probably (like perspective) the mode of our perception.” Miracles: A Preliminary Study (Published on 5/12/1947) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On May 14, 1936 Lewis had Sonnet published in The …
CSL Daily 05/13/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Christianity…is precisely the story of a great Miracle. A naturalistic Christianity leaves out all that is specifically Christian.” Miracles: A Preliminary Study (Published on 5/12/1947) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Adam at Night is a poem published in Punch on May 11, 1949 then revised and re-titled as The …
CSL Daily 05/12/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.” Miracles: A Preliminary Study (Published on 5/12/1947) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The first edition of Miracles: A Preliminary Study was published on May 12, 1947 (a second edition came out in 1960). – …