QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape Advises:] “I would make it a rule to eradicate from my patient any strong personal taste which is not actually a sin, even if it is something quite trivial.” The Screwtape Letters XIII (Published in The Guardian on 7/25/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The U.S. Paperback editions of Surprised By Joy and Till …
CSL Daily 07/25/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape Admits:] “I know that the Enemy [God] also wants to detach men from themselves, but in a different way. Remember always, that he really likes the little vermin, and sets an absurd value on the distinctiveness of every one of them.” The Screwtape Letters XIII (Published in The Guardian on 7/25/1941) – – …
CSL Daily 07/24/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “You can step outside one experience only by stepping inside another. Therefore, if all inside experiences are misleading, we are always misled.” Meditation in a Toolshed (Published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph on 7/17/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis 1922-27 came out …
CSL Daily 07/23/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “All sorts of things will make a man brave for the time being. Alcohol, ignorance of the danger, anger, self-respect, human loyalty, and love of God. But they’re not all equally good sources.” The Anvil (BBC Radio Broadcast aired 7/22/1943) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: While two dozen …
CSL Daily 07/22/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If you will go to God just as you are, fully admitting that you care about Him very little, and put yourself in His hand, if you’re even ready to be made to care and leave Him to work, He’ll do the rest.” The Anvil (BBC Radio Broadcast aired 7/22/1943) …
CSL Daily 07/21/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The feeling of being, or not being, forgiven and loved, is not what matters. One must come down to brass tacks. If there is a particular sin on your conscience, repent and confess it. If there isn’t, tell the despondent devil not to be silly.” Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne …
CSL Daily 07/20/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.” Willing Slaves of the Welfare State (Published in The Observer on 7/20/1958) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Willing Slaves of the Welfare State was …
CSL Daily 07/19/19
FACT OF THE DAY: On July 19, 1943 “The Anvil” (a BBC radio program) recorded its show with Lewis as one of the guests. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Boasts:) “The safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.” The …
CSL Daily 07/18/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Proudly States:) “The only thing that matters is the extent to which you separate the man from the Enemy [God]. It does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing.” The …
CSL Daily 07/17/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “You get one experience of a thing when you look along it and another when you look at it.” Meditation in a Toolshed (Published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph on 7/17/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The classic “Meditation in a Toolshed” essay was published on July 17, 1945 in The Coventry …