CSL Daily 11/29/19

  QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I think no class of men are less enslaved to the past than historians. The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past.” De Descriptione Temporum (Inaugural lecture given by Lewis on 11/29/54) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On Nov. 29, 1898 Lewis was …

CSL Daily 11/28/19

QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape bemoans the patient’s fate:] “He got through so easily! No gradual misgivings, no doctor’s sentence, no nursing home, no operating theatre, no false hopes of life; sheer, instantaneous liberation.” The Screwtape Letters – XXXI (First published in The Guardian on 11/28/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The final letter from …

CSL Daily 11/26/19

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When I began, Christianity came before the great mass of my unbelieving fellow-countrymen either in the highly emotional form offered by revivalists or in the unintelligible language of highly cultured clergymen. Most men were reached by neither.” Rejoinder to Dr Pittenger (Published 11/26/58 in The Christian Century) – – – FACT OF THE …

CSL Daily 11/25/19

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “To convert one’s adult neighbour and one’s adolescent neighbour (just free from school) is the practical thing. . . . If you make the adults of today Christian, the children of tomorrow will receive a Christian education. What a society has, that, be sure, and nothing else, it will hand on …

CSL Daily 11/23/19

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Whatever men expect they soon come to think they have a right to: the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury.” The Screwtape Letters – XXX (First published in The Guardian on 11/21/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “March for …

CSL Daily 11/22/19

QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Reveals:) The general rule which we have now pretty well established among them is that in all experiences which can make them happier or better only the physical facts are “Real” while the spiritual elements are “subjective.” The Screwtape Letters – XXX (First published in The Guardian on 11/21/1941) – – – …

CSL Daily 11/21/19

QUOTE OF THE DAY: [A Warning to Wormwood]: “You will soon find that the justice of Hell is purely realistic, and concerned only with results. Bring us back food, or be food yourself.” The Screwtape Letters – XXX (First published in The Guardian on 11/21/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Screwtape Letters – XXX was …