QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Perfect humility dispenses with modesty. If God is satisfied with the work, the work my be satisfied with itself.” The Weight of Glory (Sermon preached on 6/8/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis finished his academic studies at Oxford near the end of June, 1923, beginning his exams on …
Month: June 2020
CSL Daily 06/13/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: Screwtape States: “All extremes, except extreme devotion to the Enemy [i.e. God], are to be encouraged.” The Screwtape Letters VII (Published in The Guardian on 6/13/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The seventh Screwtape letter was published on June 13, 1941 in The Guardian. Mentions “Materialist Magician.” Better understand The Screwtape Letters …
CSL Daily 06/12/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “…Good images of what we really desire…the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.” The Weight of Glory (Sermon preached on 6/8/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: An expanded …
CSL Daily 06/11/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If we are made for heaven, the desire for our proper place will be already in us, but not yet attached to the true object, and will even appear as the rival of that object.” The Weight of Glory (Sermon preached on 6/8/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: …
90 Sec #6 – Tolkien’s The Hobbit Read by C.S. Lewis Before Published (YouTube)
Here’s the sixth regular episode of my 90 second YouTube show. The focus is on the fact that Lewis read Tolkien’s The Hobbit years before it was published. – – – Mentioned in this episode: Join the 90 Seconds to Knowing C.S. Lewis FB group The Hobbit The Lord of the Rings (one-volume edition) The Letters of …
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CSL Daily 06/10/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I can obey advice from others which I have often given myself in vain.” Letter to Mary Van Deusen 6/10/1952 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The U.K. edition of Letters to an American Lady was published in June, 1969 (it was first …
CSL Daily 06/09/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The human soul is not the seeker but the sought: it is God who seeks, who descends from the other world to find and heal Man; the parable about the Good Shepherd looking for and finding the lost sheep sums it up.” Edmund Spenser, 1552–99 (Republished in Studies in Medieval and Renaissance …
CSL Daily 06/08/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The New Testament has lots to say about self-denial, but not about self-denial as an end in itself.” The Weight of Glory (Sermon preached on 6/8/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “The Weight of Glory,” Lewis’s most famous sermon was preached on June 8, 1941 at St. Mary the Virgin …
CSL Daily 06/07/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It does one good to see the fine side of people we’ve always seen the worst of.” Letter to Arthur Greeves 6/7/1930 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume I) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “The Morte Darthur” by Lewis was a book review of The Works of …
CSL Daily 06/06/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Boasts:) “There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human’s mind against the Enemy [i.e. God].” The Screwtape Letters VI (Published in The Guardian on 6/6/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The sixth Screwtape letter was published on June 6, 1941 in The Guardian. Topics include how to “weaken …