QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I find that I do not exist on my own, that I am under a law; that somebody or something wants me to behave in a certain way.” 3rd BBC Broadcast (Given on 8/20/1941; Then known as Materialism or Religion) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “The Trouble with …
CSL Daily 08/24/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “God has made it a rule for Himself that He won’t alter people’s character by force. He can and will alter them – but only if the people will let Him.” The Trouble with ‘X’ (Published in August 1948 of Bristol Diocesan Gazette) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s mother, …
CSL Daily 08/23/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Everyone begins as a child by liking Weather. You learn the art of disliking it as you grow up.” That Hideous Strength (Published 8/16/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: While today (Aug. 23rd) was Lewis’s father’s birthday it is also the date (in 1908) that his mother (Flora) …
CSL Daily 08/22/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Boasts:) “One of the great, achievements of the last hundred years has been to deaden the human conscience on [gluttony], so that by now you will hardly find a sermon preached or a conscience troubled about it.” The Screwtape Letters XVII (Published in The Guardian on 8/22/1941) – – – FACT …
CSL Daily 08/21/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.” That Hideous Strength (Published 8/16/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “The Day with a White Mark,” a poem by Lewis was published in the August 17, 1949 issue …
CSL Daily 08/20/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If there was a controlling power outside the universe, it could not show itself to us as one of the facts inside the universe – no more than the architect of a house could actually be a wall or staircase or fireplace in that house.” 3rd BBC Broadcast (Given on …
CSL Daily 08/19/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “To nearly all ancient men, and to many medieval men, friendship seemed the most valuable and the most completely human of all natural loves. It was for them the crown of life and the school of virtues.” The Four Loves (First Recorded for Radio on 8/19 & 8/20/1958) – – – …
CSL Daily 08/18/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I think God wants us to love Him more, not to love creatures (even animals) less.” Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne on 8/18/1956 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Solomon,” a poem by Lewis was published in the August 14, 1946 …
CSL Daily 08/17/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There is still life in the tradition which the Middle Ages inaugurated. But the maintenance of that life depends, in part, on knowing that the knightly character is art not nature—something that needs to be achieved, not something that can be relied upon to happen.” The Necessity of Chivalry (Published …
CSL Daily 08/16/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there’s never more than one.” That Hideous Strength (Published in 8/16/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: That Hideous Strength, a book from Lewis’s Sci-Fi trilogy, was published August 16, 1945. Have you read the book? …