QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Only children quarrel about whether pancakes are nice or nasty, but grown men quarrel about whether an act is right or wrong.” Answers to Listeners’ Questions transcript (BBC Broadcast from 9/3/1941 known as “Some Objections” in Broadcast Talks) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On September 4, 1943 “My First …
CSL Daily 09/03/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A great myth is relevant as long as the predicament of humanity lasts: as long as humanity lasts. It will always work, on those who can receive it, the same catharsis.” Haggard Rides Again (Published in Time and Tide on 9/3/1960) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “The Mythopoeic Gift of …
CSL Daily 09/02/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If nothing, or nothing we recognise comes through, we imagine [God] has let us down and reject Him, perhaps at the very moment when help was on its way. . .” Letter to Mrs. Lockley on 9/2/1949 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II) – – – FACT OF …
CSL Daily 09/01/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The ancient man approached God (or even the gods) as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are reversed. He is the judge: God is in the dock.” Difficulties in Presenting the Christian Faith to Modern Unbelievers (Published in September 1948 issue of Lumen Vitae) – …
CSL Daily 08/31/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: [After explaining some weaknesses in a child’s stories:] “I hope you don’t mind me telling you all this? One can learn only by seeing one’s mistakes. Letter to Joan Lancaster on 8/31/1958 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Poem “Vowels …
CSL Daily 08/30/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Reveals:) “The whole philosophy of Hell rests on recognition of the axiom that one thing is not another thing, and, specially, that one self is not another self. My good is my good and your good is yours. What one gains another loses.” The Screwtape Letters XVIII (Published in The …
CSL Daily 08/29/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Do you place yourself in the obedience,’ said the Director, ‘in obedience to Maleldil?’ ‘Sir,’ said Jane, ‘I know nothing of Maleldil. But I place myself in obedience to you.’ ‘It is enough for the present,’ said the Director. ‘This is the courtesy of Deep Heaven: that when you mean …
CSL Daily 08/28/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Friends are not primarily absorbed in each other. It is when we are doing things together that friendship springs up – painting, sailing ships, praying, philosophizing, fighting shoulder to shoulder. Friends look in the same direction. Lovers look at each other: that is, in opposite directions.” Equality (Published in The Spectator on 8/27/1943) …
CSL Daily 08/27/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.” 4th BBC Broadcast (Given on 8/27/1941; Then known as What Can We Do About It) – – – FACT OF THE …
CSL Daily 08/26/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “In fighting those who serve devils one always has this on one’s side; their Masters hate them as much as they hate us.” That Hideous Strength (Published 8/16/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s father, Albert, was notorious for not liking his routine changed; this quality negatively affected …