QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I think we may except [accept] it as a rule that whenever a person’s religious conversation dwells chiefly, or even frequently, on the faults of other people’s religions, he is in a bad condition.” Letter to Mary Van Deusen 6/26/1952 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – …
CSL Daily 06/25/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We act from duty in the hope that someday we shall do the same acts freely and delightfully.” The Novels of Charles Williams (Published in On Stories on 6/24/1982) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On Stories: and Other Essays on Literature was initially published on June 24th in 1982. …
CSL Daily 06/24/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The simple physical pains and (still more) the pleasures can’t be expressed in language. I labour the point lest the devil should hereafter try to make you believe that what was wordless was therefore vague and nebulous. But in reality it is just the clearest, the most concrete, and the most …
CSL Daily 06/23/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Admits:) “Prayers offered in the state of dryness are those which please Him (God) best.” The Screwtape Letters VIII (Published in The Guardian on 6/20/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s poem “Vitrea Circe” was published in Punch on June 23, 1948 and was revised and reprinted in Poems. – – – PURCHASE The Misquotable …
CSL Daily 06/22/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is not really you who are holding fast to Him but He to you: and He will bring you to wherever He wants.” Letter to Rhona Bodle 6/22/1948 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis showed the galley proofs for The Lion, …
CSL Daily 06/21/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Glory, as Christianity teaches me to hope for it, turns out to satisfy my original desire and indeed to reveal an element in that desire which I had not noticed.” The Weight of Glory (Sermon preached on 6/8/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: An Expostulation (against too many writers …
CSL Daily 06/20/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Admits:) “One must face the fact that all the talk about His [God’s] love for men, and His service being perfect freedom, is not (as one would gladly believe) mere propaganda, but an appalling truth.” The Screwtape Letters VIII (Published in The Guardian on 6/20/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: …
CSL Daily 06/19/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “How God thinks of us is not only more important, but infinitely more important. Indeed, how we think of Him is of no importance except in so far as it is related to how He thinks of us.” The Weight of Glory (Sermon preached on 6/8/1941) – – – FACT OF …
CSL Daily 06/18/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.” The Problem of Pain (Quoted in Daily Readings with C.S. Lewis published on 6/18/92) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Daily Readings with C.S. …
CSL Daily 06/17/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. Remember, though we struggle against things because we are afraid of them, it is often the other way round— we get afraid because we struggle.” Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne 6/17/1963 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – …