QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Die before you die, there is no chance after.” Till We Have Faces (Published 9/10/1956 – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Till We Have Faces, Lewis’s last published fictional work was released on September 10, 1956. – – – PURCHASE The Misquotable C.S. Lewis
Month: September 2019
CSL Daily 09/09/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other medium is available.” Studies in Words (Published 9/9/1960) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’ Studies in Words is a title that was published on September …
CSL Daily 09/08/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst. Of all created beings the wickedest is one who originally stood in the immediate presence of God.” Reflections on the Psalms (Published on 9/8/58) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis was on the cover of Time on September 8, 1947. Reflections …
CSL Daily 09/07/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Very likely, what with enemies, and mountains, and rivers to cross, and losing our way, and next to nothing to eat, and sore feet, we’ll hardly notice the weather.” The Silver Chair (Published 9/7/1953) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Silver Chair was first published in the UK …
CSL Daily 09/06/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We’re free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you’re running away to Narnia, you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn’t your horse any longer. One might just as well say you’re her human.” The Horse and His Boy (Published 9/6/54) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The …
CSL Daily 09/05/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “No man would find an abiding strangeness on the Moon unless he were the sort of man who could find it in his own back garden.” On Stories (Published in Of Other Worlds on 9/5/1966) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories edited by Walter Hooper was …
CSL Daily 09/04/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Only children quarrel about whether pancakes are nice or nasty, but grown men quarrel about whether an act is right or wrong.” Answers to Listeners’ Questions transcript (BBC Broadcast from 9/3/1941 known as “Some Objections” in Broadcast Talks) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On September 4, 1943 “My First …
CSL Daily 09/03/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A great myth is relevant as long as the predicament of humanity lasts: as long as humanity lasts. It will always work, on those who can receive it, the same catharsis.” Haggard Rides Again (Published in Time and Tide on 9/3/1960) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “The Mythopoeic Gift of …
CSL Daily 09/02/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If nothing, or nothing we recognise comes through, we imagine [God] has let us down and reject Him, perhaps at the very moment when help was on its way. . .” Letter to Mrs. Lockley on 9/2/1949 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II) – – – FACT OF …
CSL Daily 09/01/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The ancient man approached God (or even the gods) as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are reversed. He is the judge: God is in the dock.” Difficulties in Presenting the Christian Faith to Modern Unbelievers (Published in September 1948 issue of Lumen Vitae) – …