QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I now feel that one must never say one believes or understands anything: any morning a doctrine I thought I already possessed may blossom into this new reality.” Letter to Sister Penelope 6/5/1951 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The first known …
Month: June 2020
CSL Daily 06/04/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Advises Wormwood:) “Do not allow any temporary excitement to distract you from the real business of undermining faith and preventing the formation of virtues.” The Screwtape Letters V (Published in The Guardian on 5/30/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On June 4, 1954 Lewis accepted the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance …
CSL Daily 06/03/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “After all, almost the main work of life is to come out of our selves, out of the little, dark prison we are all born in.” Letter to Keith Masson 6/3/1956 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis wrote to …
CSL Daily 06/02/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The real difficulty is, isn’t it, to adapt ones steady beliefs about tribulation to this particular tribulation; for the particular, when it arrives, always seems so peculiarly intolerable.” Letter to Owen Barfield 6/2/1940 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Membership,” …
CSL Daily 06/01/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There will always be those who, on discovering that history cannot really be turned to much practical account, will pronounce history to be Bunk.” Is History Bunk? (Published on 6/1/1957 in The Cambridge Review) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Is History Bunk? by Lewis was first published June 1, 1957 …