QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Admits:) “One must face the fact that all the talk about His [God’s] love for men, and His service being perfect freedom, is not (as one would gladly believe) mere propaganda, but an appalling truth.” The Screwtape Letters VIII (Published in The Guardian on 6/20/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: …
Month: June 2019
CSL Daily 06/19/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “How God thinks of us is not only more important, but infinitely more important. Indeed, how we think of Him is of no importance except in so far as it is related to how He thinks of us.” The Weight of Glory (Sermon preached on 6/8/1941) – – – FACT OF …
CSL Daily 06/18/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.” The Problem of Pain (Quoted in Daily Readings with C.S. Lewis published on 6/18/92) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Daily Readings with C.S. …
CSL Daily 06/17/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. Remember, though we struggle against things because we are afraid of them, it is often the other way round— we get afraid because we struggle.” Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne 6/17/1963 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – …
CSL Daily 06/16/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape Advises:] “We want the Church to be small not only that fewer men may know the Enemy but also that those who do may acquire the uneasy intensity and the defensive self-righteousness of a secret society or a clique.” The Screwtape Letters VII (Published in The Guardian on 6/13/1941) – – …
CSL Daily 06/15/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself— to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed, & then to find yourself still in bed.” Letter to Arthur Greeves 6/15/1930 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume I) – – …
CSL Daily 06/14/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Perfect humility dispenses with modesty. If God is satisfied with the work, the work my be satisfied with itself.” The Weight of Glory (Sermon preached on 6/8/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis finished his academic studies at Oxford near the end of June, 1923, beginning his exams on …
CSL Daily 06/13/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: Screwtape States: “All extremes, except extreme devotion to the Enemy [i.e. God], are to be encouraged.” The Screwtape Letters VII (Published in The Guardian on 6/13/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The seventh Screwtape letter was published on June 13, 1941 in The Guardian. Mentions “Materialist Magician.” Better understand The Screwtape Letters …
CSL Daily 06/12/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “…Good images of what we really desire…the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.” The Weight of Glory (Sermon preached on 6/8/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: An expanded …
CSL Daily 06/11/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If we are made for heaven, the desire for our proper place will be already in us, but not yet attached to the true object, and will even appear as the rival of that object.” The Weight of Glory (Sermon preached on 6/8/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: …