QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Of all the passions, the passion for the Inner Ring is most skillful in making a man who is not yet a very bad man do very bad things.” The Inner Ring (Published in Screwtape Proposes a Toast on 1/4/1965) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “The Romantics” is a poem …
CSL Daily 01/15/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself.” The Great Divorce (Published on 1/14/1946) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Pan’s Purge,” a poem by Lewis was published January 15, 1947 in Punch; it’s now printed in Poems. – – – PURCHASE The Misquotable C.S. Lewis
CSL Daily 01/14/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.’” The Great Divorce (Published on 1/14/1946) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Great Divorce (complete book) was published …
CSL Daily 01/13/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Recently (although the outward condition of my life has not changed for the better) it has pleased God to pour into my soul great tranquillity – I may even say gaiety.” Letter to Don Giovanni Calabria (from Collected Letters, Volume 2 on 1/13/1948) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On January …
CSL Daily 01/12/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Could you, only for a moment, fix your mind on something not yourself?” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce X (Published in The Guardian on 1/12/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The tenth installment of The Great Divorce was published on January 12, 1945; it covered all of chapter eight. – …
CSL Daily 01/11/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in this world is a part of God.” What Christians Believe (First Talk from BBC Broadcast on 1/11/1942) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On January 11, 1942 Lewis …
CSL Daily 01/10/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The danger of mistaking our merely natural, though perhaps legitimate, enthusiasms for holy zeal, is always great.” Meditation on the Third Commandment (Published in The Guardian on 1/10/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The January 10, 1941 issue of The Guardian included “Meditation on the Third Commandment” from Lewis. Hear a podcast “essay chat” on …
CSL Daily 01/09/20
FACT OF THE DAY: “The Birth of Language” is a poem by Lewis published January 9, 1946 in Punch (it uses planetary imagery). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “May God’s grace give you the necessary humility. Try not to think—much less, speak—of their sins. One’s own are a much more profitable theme!” Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne …
CSL Daily 01/08/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The question is not whether we should bring God into our work or not. We certainly should and must…Each vocation has its peculiar dangers and peculiar rewards.” Letter to Sheldon Vanauken (from Collected Letters, Volume 3 on 1/8/1951) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On January 8, 1955 Lewis’s article …
CSL Daily 01/07/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.” The Abolition of Man (Published on 1/6/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis spent the first night in his new rooms at Magdalene College, Cambridge on January 7, 1955. – – – PURCHASE The Misquotable C.S. Lewis