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 09/23/19
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 09/22/19
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 09/21/19
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 09/20/19
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 …
CSL Daily 09/19/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Joy is not a substitute for sex; sex is very often a substitute for Joy. I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for Joy.” Surprised By Joy (Published 9/19/1955) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Surprised By Joy: The Shape of My Early Life by Lewis was published …
CSL Daily 09/18/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The limit of giving is to be the limit of our ability to give.” English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (Published 9/16/1954) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “The Landing” is a poem published in Punch on Sept. 15, 1948; a revised version is in Poems. – – – PURCHASE The Misquotable C.S. Lewis …
CSL Daily 09/17/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our philosophy [belief system], not our whole philosophy on a feeling.” Religion: Reality or Substitute? (Published in September-October, 1941 issue of World Dominion) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe began being dramatized …
CSL Daily 09/16/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The rule of decorum exists to avoid clashes or shocks to organized sensibility: but it was an early discovery that an occasional defiance of the rule, resulting in a shock, can give pleasure; a pleasure rich in tragic or comic possibilities. Indeed one of the purposes for which the rule exists …
CSL Daily 09/15/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Aslan, speaking to Lucy] “But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder.” The Voyage of the ‘Dawn Treader’ (Published 9/15/52) – – – FACT OF THE …