QUOTE OF THE DAY: “No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed. They that are whole need not the physician. Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.” Religion and Rocketry (Published as “Will We Lose God in Outer Space” in the April, 1958 …
Month: April 2020
CSL Daily 04/20/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Every joy is beyond all others. The fruit we are eating is always the best fruit of all.” Perelandra (Published 4/20/1943) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On April 20, 1942 Perelandra was published. It tells of adventures on Venus. – – – Have you seen my YouTube channel? It’s called “90 …
[PODCAST] LWW – Book verses 2005 Movie, pt. 2
This is the second and final part of an episode exploring how well the 2005 Hollywood version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe compares with the book that was published in 1950. My guests are Dr. Crystal Downing, co-Director of the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College and Dr. Charlie Starr who …
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CSL Daily 04/19/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Hope…a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think) a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.” Christian Behaviour (Published 4/19/1943) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Christian Behaviour was first published on April 19, …
CSL Daily 04/18/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is a curious fact that the advice we can give to others we cannot give to ourselves and truth is more effective through any life rather than our own.” Letter to Sister Penelope (sent 11/19/1941) (First available in Letters of C.S. Lewis published 4/18/1966) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Letters of …
CSL Daily 04/17/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The voice of God indeed daily calls to us; calls to the world to abandon sins and seek the Kingdom of God wholeheartedly. O that we may all hear the call of the Father and, sometime, at last be converted to the Lord.” Letter to Don Giovanni Calabria on 4/17/1949 (Published in The …
CSL Daily 04/16/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The question ‘Who is in the right’ (in a given quarrel) is quite distinct from the question ‘Who is righteous?’— for the worse of two disputants may always be in the right on one particular issue.” Letter to Dom Bede Griffiths OSB on 4/16/1940 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, …
CSL Daily 04/15/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Christian story is precisely the story of one grand miracle, the Christian assertion being that what is beyond all space and time, what is uncreated, eternal, came into nature, into human nature, descended into His own universe, and rose again, bringing nature up with Him.” The Grand Miracle (Sermon …
CSL Daily 04/14/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “But let us thank God that we are still very far from travel to other worlds. I have wondered before now whether the vast astronomical distances may not be God’s quarantine precautions. They prevent the spiritual infection of a fallen species from spreading.” Religion and Rocketry (initially titled Will We Lose …
CSL Daily 04/13/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Only the Greatest of all can make Himself small enough to enter Hell. For the higher a thing is, the lower it can descend.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XXIII (Published in The Guardian on 4/13/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: 23rd & final installment of what eventually …