QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[Charles Williams writes] that sort of book in which we begin by saying, ‘Let us suppose that this everyday world were, at some one point, invaded by the marvellous. Let us, in fact, suppose a violation of frontier.’” The Novels of Charles Williams (Talk recorded and aired on 2/11/1949; now …
Month: February 2020
CSL Daily 02/11/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “To find that one’s emotions do not ‘come to heel’ and line up as stable sentiments in permanent conformity with one’s convictions is simply the facts of being a fallen, and still imperfectly redeemed, man.” Letter to Michael Edwardson 2/11/1960 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – …
CSL Daily 02/10/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together.” Membership (Talk given on 2/10/1945; now found in The Weight of Glory) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The World’s Last Night collection of essays book was first published on February 10, 1960. Lewis also gave a talk now known as “Membership” today in …
CSL Daily 02/09/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them.” Preface to The Screwtape Letters (Published 2/9/1942) – – – FACT OF THE …
CSL Daily 02/08/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The central Christian belief is that Christ’s death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.” The Perfect Penitent (Given as a talk on the BBC on 2/8/1942) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The fourth talk from the second BBC series was given on …
2020 C.S. Lewis Quotathon Recap – Day 1, Part 1
This page serves as an extension of the “show notes” for my extended edition of “90 Seconds to Knowing C.S. Lewis” YouTube video of “2020 C.S. Lewis Quotathon Recap – Day 1, Part 1.” After the video itself are the graphic images for the quotes used. This makes it easy to share the individual quotations. …
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CSL Daily 02/07/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If evil has the same kind of reality as good, the same autonomy and completeness, our allegiance to good becomes the arbitrarily chosen loyalty of a partisan.” Evil and God (Published in The Spectator on 2/7/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: In 1941 on February 7th “Evil and God” was published in The Spectator. In …
CSL Daily 02/06/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.” The Shocking Alternative (Given as a talk on the BBC on 2/1/1942) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Magician’s Nephew took Lewis the longest to …
CSL Daily 02/05/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I fancy we are all too ready, once we are converted ourselves, to assume that God will deal with everyone exactly as He does with us. But He is no mass-producer and treats no two quite alike.” Letter to Mrs. Jessup on 2/5/1954 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) …
CSL Daily 02/04/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Since term began I have had a delightful time reading a children’s story which Tolkien has just written.” Letter to Arthur Greeves on 2/4/1933 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On February 4, 1933 Lewis wrote to his friend Arthur Greeves about reading a …