QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about ‘misery.’” Letter to Arthur Greeves on 1/31/1917 – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis was president of the Oxford Socratic Club from its founding (1942) until 1955 (when …
Month: January 2020
CSL Daily 01/30/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “One cannot be too careful: one must try to hold fast to one’s duties (I wish I did) which are the prose of the spiritual life and not learn to depend too much on these delightful moments.” Letter to Arthur Greeves on 1/30/1930 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, …
CSL Daily 01/29/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “For it is not so much of our time and so much of our attention that God demands; it is not even all our time and all our attention: it is our selves.” A Slip of the Tongue (Sermon preached on 1/29/1956) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis …
CSL Daily 01/28/20
For those who get the EMAIL…sorry that the YouTube video didn’t display yesterday. Here’s a LINK to the 90 Seconds to C.S. Lewis. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is no use to ask God with factious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with B. We must …
90 Seconds #1 – Met J. R. R. Tolkien (YouTube Show)
Here’s something new I’m doing…a 90 second YouTube “show” to help people briefly learn about significant events in the life of C.S. Lewis. I plan to release something new each week. Hopefully, it will eventually be a book with 365 entries. Note the text version of the show is below, WITH footnotes! Met J. R. …
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CSL Daily 01/27/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Joy is the serious business of Heaven.” Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer (Published on 1/27/1964) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer was published January 27, 1964; one of the last books Lewis prepared before his death. – – – PURCHASE The Misquotable C.S. Lewis
CSL Daily 01/26/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself…as if the good Lord had nothing to do but exist!” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XII (Published in The Guardian on 1/26/1945) – – – FACT OF …
CSL Daily 01/25/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If nothing is certainly right, then of course it follows that nothing is certainly wrong.” De Futilitate (Published in Christian Reflections on 1/23/1967) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism,” published in Christian Reflections on January 23, 1967, was later re-titled as “Fern-seed and Elephants.” – – – PURCHASE The …
CSL Daily 01/24/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary colour in the spectrum.” The Poison of Subjectivism (Published in Christian Reflections on 1/23/1967) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: All the letters of the alphabet …
CSL Daily 01/23/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Unless the measuring rod is independent of the things measured, we can do no measuring.” The Poison of Subjectivism (Published in Christian Reflections on 1/23/1967) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: It was on January 23, 1967, that Christian Reflections (an essay collection) was published. – – – PURCHASE The Misquotable C.S. Lewis