FACT OF THE DAY: On March 11, 1936 Lewis wrote to Charles Williams for the first time; it become the start of a close friendship. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.” Who …
C. S. Lewis on Prayer (Video Study by Rev. David Beckmann)
How familiar are with Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer? Rev. David Beckmann has studied this book a lot and given a variety of talks on it. Now he has pulled together that experience and put it into a series of online videos that was filmed in and around Oxford. That’s why he’s my guest on …
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CSL Daily 3/10/17
FACT OF THE DAY: On March 10, 1949 Lewis shared two chapters of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe with his friend (and former student) Roger Green. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Nothing, not even the best and noblest, can go on as it now is. Nothing, not even what is lowest …
CSL Daily 3/9/17
FACT OF THE DAY: 18th installment of the eventual book The Great Divorce was published in The Guardian on March 9, 1945. It was the first half of Ch. 12. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is no use to say `Lord, Lord’, if we do not do what Christ tells us.” Mr C. …
CSL Daily 3/8/17
FACT OF THE DAY: In March, 1948 Lewis began writing his autobiography Surprised by Joy, but it wasn’t published until 1955. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The words ‘God is love’ have no real meaning unless God contains at least two Persons.” Good Infection (Initially a BBC broadcast from 3/7/44)
CSL Daily 3/7/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Good Infection, the third of the 4th BBC radio series was given March 7, 1944. It became the fourth chapter in Mere Christianity. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is quite right to go away from [the words of the Bible] for a moment in order to make some special …
CSL Daily 3/6/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “Christianity and Culture” appeared in March, 1940 issue of Theology, but wrote more on the topic in the June and December issues. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Once we have accepted an omniscient & providential God, the distinction we used to draw between the significant and the fortuitous must …
CSL Daily 3/5/17
FACT OF THE DAY: On March 5, 1908, when Lewis was just 9, he recorded in his diary that he had read Paradise Lost. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility.” Christianity and Culture (Published in March 1940 in Theology)
(CCSLQ-33) – Isn’t It Funny
PURCHASE The Misquotable C.S. Lewis – – – This is part of a series exploring quotations attributed to C.S. Lewis that are questionable for one reason or another. Presently a new article is posted the first Saturday of each month (or sometimes the second if there are five Saturdays). There is an “at a glance” page HERE …
CSL Daily 3/4/17
FACT OF THE DAY: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C.S. Lewis became available for the first time on March 4, 1968. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I believe no angel ever appears in Scripture without exciting terror: they always have to begin by saying ‘Fear not.’” Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne 3/4/1953 (Published …