FACT OF THE DAY: On Nov. 14, 1958 Lewis wrote to Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher to accept his invitation to become a member of the Commission to Revise the Psalter. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Despair is a greater sin than any of the sins which provoke it.” The Screwtape Letters – XXIX (First …
CSL Daily 11/14/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The Screwtape Letters – XXIX: Cowardice was released on Nov. 14, 1941 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Our research department has not yet discovered (though success is hourly expected) how to produce any virtue. This is a serious handicap. To be greatly and effectively wicked a man …
CSL Daily 11/13/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Although previously released in 1991, All My Road Before Me came out in paperback in the US on Nov. 13, 1992. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Prosperity knits a man to the World. He feels that he is ‘finding his place in it,’ while really it is finding its place in …
CSL Daily 11/12/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’ first ever essay was published in November, 1912 in Cherbourg School Magazine and called “The Expedition to Holly Bush Hill. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “‘Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling’— which looks as if everything depended on us and our good actions: but the second half …
(CCSLQ-41) – Go Back and Change
UPDATED (8/25/18) – The Misquotable C.S. Lewis is my book that examines 75 quotations attributed to Lewis that I caution you not to share. Some are falsely attributed to him, others are paraphrases of his words, and a few have context issues. Don’t share a quote attributed to Lewis unless you can confirm he wrote it and the meaning …
CSL Daily 11/11/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The American edition of Mere Christianity was first published on Nov. 11, 1952. It was published on July 7 in the UK the same year. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who …
CSL Daily 11/10/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The first weekly installment of The Great Divorce appears in The Guardian on Nov. 10, 1944 under the title of “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what …
CSL Daily 11/09/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “Period Criticism” is an essay about Chesterton that was first published on Nov. 9, 1946 in “Notes on the Way” column in Time and Tide. Hear an “essay chat” podcast discussion on this shorter work, Period Criticism. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The truth is that the whole criticism which …
CSL Daily 11/08/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “Faith” is the chapter title of what was the 8th and final BBC talk from Lewis’s third series that became the book Christian Behaviour (where it is chapter 12). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There are a great many things [in Christianity] that cannot be understood until after you have gone …
CSL Daily 11/07/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The last month of weekly letters from Screwtape began on Nov. 7, 1941 when the 28th letter was published in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[Humans] do tend to regard death as the prime evil and survival as the greatest good. But that is because we have taught …