QUOTE OF THE DAY: [After explaining some weaknesses in a child’s stories:] “I hope you don’t mind me telling you all this? One can learn only by seeing one’s mistakes. Letter to Joan Lancaster on 8/31/1958 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Poem “Vowels …
Month: August 2019
CSL Daily 08/30/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Reveals:) “The whole philosophy of Hell rests on recognition of the axiom that one thing is not another thing, and, specially, that one self is not another self. My good is my good and your good is yours. What one gains another loses.” The Screwtape Letters XVIII (Published in The …
CSL Daily 08/29/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Do you place yourself in the obedience,’ said the Director, ‘in obedience to Maleldil?’ ‘Sir,’ said Jane, ‘I know nothing of Maleldil. But I place myself in obedience to you.’ ‘It is enough for the present,’ said the Director. ‘This is the courtesy of Deep Heaven: that when you mean …
CSL Daily 08/28/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Friends are not primarily absorbed in each other. It is when we are doing things together that friendship springs up – painting, sailing ships, praying, philosophizing, fighting shoulder to shoulder. Friends look in the same direction. Lovers look at each other: that is, in opposite directions.” Equality (Published in The Spectator on 8/27/1943) …
CSL Daily 08/27/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.” 4th BBC Broadcast (Given on 8/27/1941; Then known as What Can We Do About It) – – – FACT OF THE …
CSL Daily 08/26/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “In fighting those who serve devils one always has this on one’s side; their Masters hate them as much as they hate us.” That Hideous Strength (Published 8/16/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s father, Albert, was notorious for not liking his routine changed; this quality negatively affected …
CSL Daily 08/25/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I find that I do not exist on my own, that I am under a law; that somebody or something wants me to behave in a certain way.” 3rd BBC Broadcast (Given on 8/20/1941; Then known as Materialism or Religion) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “The Trouble with …
CSL Daily 08/24/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “God has made it a rule for Himself that He won’t alter people’s character by force. He can and will alter them – but only if the people will let Him.” The Trouble with ‘X’ (Published in August 1948 of Bristol Diocesan Gazette) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s mother, …
CSL Daily 08/23/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Everyone begins as a child by liking Weather. You learn the art of disliking it as you grow up.” That Hideous Strength (Published 8/16/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: While today (Aug. 23rd) was Lewis’s father’s birthday it is also the date (in 1908) that his mother (Flora) …
CSL Daily 08/22/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Boasts:) “One of the great, achievements of the last hundred years has been to deaden the human conscience on [gluttony], so that by now you will hardly find a sermon preached or a conscience troubled about it.” The Screwtape Letters XVII (Published in The Guardian on 8/22/1941) – – – FACT …