QUOTE OF THE DAY: “In general…the poet’s route to our emotions lies through our imaginations.” Studies in Words, 2nd Edition (Published in 7/6/1967) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Second Edition of Studies in Words was released July 6, 1967 with three new words/chapters. – – – PURCHASE The Misquotable C.S. Lewis
CSL Daily 07/02/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.” The Four Loves (U.S. edition first published 7/27/1960) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Expedition to Holly Bush Hill was published in the July 1913 issue of Cherbourg School Magazine; a difference Lewis essay from 1912. – – – Have …
CSL Daily 07/01/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When natural things look most divine, the demoniac is just round the corner.” The Four Loves (U.S. edition first published 7/27/1960) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis wrote a letter to the editor on July 1, 1949 to Church Times. It’s in God in the Dock as “The Church’s Liturgy.” – …
CSL Daily 06/30/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I suppose (tho’ it seems a hard saying) we should mind humiliation less if [we] were humbler…But don’t think I don’t know how much easier it is to preach than practice.” Letters to An American Lady (Published in the UK June, 1969; letter written March 31, 1954) – – – FACT …
CSL Daily 06/29/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Laments:)”All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy has produced, at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He has forbidden.” The Screwtape Letters IX (Published in The Guardian on 6/27/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The ninth letter from …
90 Sec Special #5 – Fake C.S. Lewis SCREWTAPE Quotes (YouTube)
Here’s the fifth special episode of my 90 second YouTube show. It VERY briefly tells about THREE passages that falsely claim to be from The Screwtape Letters. – – – Books mentioned in this episode: Join the Confirming C.S. Lewis Quotations Group Join the 90 Seconds to Knowing C.S. Lewis FB group The Screwtape Letters C.S. …
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CSL Daily 06/28/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Think of yourself just as a seed patiently wintering in the earth; waiting to come up a flower in the Gardener’s good time, up into the real world, the real waking.” Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne 6/28/1963 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – FACT OF …
CSL Daily 06/27/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “You can’t get second things by putting them first; you can get second things only by putting first things first.” First and Second Things (Published in Time and Tide on 6/27/1942) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The first paperback edition of The Magician’s Nephew came out on June 27, 1963 (first published May …
CSL Daily 06/26/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I think we may except [accept] it as a rule that whenever a person’s religious conversation dwells chiefly, or even frequently, on the faults of other people’s religions, he is in a bad condition.” Letter to Mary Van Deusen 6/26/1952 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – …
CSL Daily 06/25/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We act from duty in the hope that someday we shall do the same acts freely and delightfully.” The Novels of Charles Williams (Published in On Stories on 6/24/1982) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On Stories: and Other Essays on Literature was initially published on June 24th in 1982. …