QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape Admits:] “The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most completely temporal part of time-for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.” The Screwtape Letters XV (Published in The Guardian on 8/8/1941) – – – …
Month: August 2019
CSL Daily 08/10/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I think almost all the crimes which Christians have perpetrated against each other arise from this, that religion is confused with politics.” Letter to Don Giovanni Calabria 8/10/1953 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’ letter to the editor of Church Times on …
CSL Daily 08/09/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “One hopes there will come a day when one can enjoy nice things said about one’s self just in the same innocent way as one enjoys nice things about anyone else—perfect humility will need no modesty.” Letter to Sister Penelope 8/9/1939 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II) – – …
CSL Daily 08/08/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The humans live in time but our Enemy [God] destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time which they call the Present.” The Screwtape Letters XV (Published in The Guardian on 8/8/1941) – – – …
CSL Daily 08/07/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The good things even of this world are far too good ever to be reached by imagination. Even the common orange, you know: no one could have imagined it before he tasted it. How much less Heaven.” Letter to Mrs. Johnson 8/7/1956 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) …
CSL Daily 08/06/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Quarreling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. And there would be no sense in trying to do that unless you and he had some sort of agreement as to what Right and Wrong are.” The Law of Human Nature (First heard on the BBC …
CSL Daily 08/05/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape advises:] “You must therefore conceal from the patient the true end of Humility. Let him think of it not as self-forgetfulness but as a certain kind of opinion (namely, a low opinion) of his own talents and character.” The Screwtape Letters XIV (Published in The Guardian on 8/1/1941) – – – FACT …
CSL Daily 08/04/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape advises:] “Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware of that he has them, but this is specially true of humility.” The Screwtape Letters XIV (Published in The Guardian on 8/1/1941) – – – FACT …
CSL Daily 08/03/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I take it as a first principle that we must not interpret any one part of Scripture so that it contradicts other parts, and specially we must not use an apostle’s teaching to contradict that of Our Lord.” Letter to Mrs. Emily McLay 8/3/1953 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, …
CSL Daily 08/02/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “God’s presence is not the same as the feeling of God’s presence and He may be doing most for us when we think He is doing least.” Letter to Mary Margaret McCaslin 8/2/1954 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “On the …