QUOTE OF THE DAY: “You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.” A Grief Observed (Published 9/29/1961) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: A Grief Observed was published on Sept. 29, 1961, but it wasn’t until after his death that it was …
Month: September 2020
CSL Daily 09/28/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[Christianity] was never intended to replace or supersede the ordinary human arts and sciences: it is rather a director which will set them all to the right jobs, and a source of energy which will give them all new life, if only they will put themselves at its disposal.” Social …
CSL Daily 09/27/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.” Social Morality (Broadcast on BBC on 9/27/1942; Chapter two from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The 2nd talk in the third BBC series (Christian Behaviour) was broadcast on …
CSL Daily 09/26/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Complains:) “Everything has to be twisted before it’s any use to us [devils].” The Screwtape Letters – XXII (First published in The Guardian on 9/26/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The 22nd Screwtape letter was published on September 26, 1941 in The Guardian (before being released in 1942 as a single book). …
CSL Daily 09/25/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Observes:) “Men are not angered by mere misfortune but by misfortune conceived as injury.” The Screwtape Letters – XXI (First published in The Guardian on 9/19/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On September 25, 1929 Lewis’ father (Albert) died. His financial support was vital to Lewis getting his degrees …
CSL Daily 09/24/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.” Out of the Silent Planet (Published 9/23/1938) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On September 12, 1951 “The Country of the Blind” is a poem first published in Punch and available in Poems. – – – PURCHASE The Misquotable C.S. Lewis
CSL Daily 09/23/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory.” Out of the Silent Planet (Published 9/23/1938) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Out of the Silent Planet was first published on September 23, 1938. It was his second fictional story for Lewis as a Christian. – …
CSL Daily 09/22/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The most important sense of a word is not always the most useful. What is the good of deepening a word’s connotation if you deprive the word of all practicable denotation?” The Death of Words (Published 9/22/1944 in The Spectator) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On September 22, 1944 …
CSL Daily 09/21/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The greed to be loved is a fearful thing. Some of those who say (and almost with pride) that they live only for love come, at last, to live in incessant resentment.” The Sermon and the Lunch (Published 9/21/1945 in Church of England Newspaper) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: …
CSL Daily 09/20/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Think of humanity as a band playing a tune. To get a good result, you need two things. Each player’s individual instrument must be in tune and also each must come in at the right moment so as to combine with all the others.” The Three Parts of Morality (Broadcast on …