QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The process of living seems to consist in coming to realise truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes. They cannot sound otherwise to those who have not had the relevant experience.” Letter to Dom Bede Griffiths OSB on 5/8/1939 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, …
CSL Daily 05/07/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “No doubt all history in the last resort must be held by Christians to be a story with a divine plot.” The Discarded Image (Published in 5/7/1964) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature was first published on May 7, 1964. …
CSL Daily 05/06/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Christian must wage endless war against the clamour of the ego as ego: but he loves and approves selves as such, though not their sins.” Two Ways with the Self (Published on 5/3/1940 in The Guardian) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Magician’s Nephew took Lewis the longest to …
CSL Daily 05/05/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: Screwtape’s observation of humans: “Thanks to processes which we set at work in them centuries ago, they find it all but impossible to believe in the unfamiliar while the familiar is before their eyes.” The Screwtape Letters I (Published in The Guardian on 5/2/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On May …
CSL Daily 05/04/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Yes— it is sometimes hard to obey St. Paul’s ‘Rejoice.’ We must try to take life moment by moment. The actual present is usually pretty tolerable, I think, if only we refrain from adding to its burden that of the past and the future.” Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne on 5/4/1962 …
CSL Daily 05/03/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There are two kinds of self-hatred which look rather alike in their earlier stages, but of which one is wrong from the beginning and the other right to the end.” Two Ways with the Self (Published on 5/3/1940 in The Guardian) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s article “Two …
CSL Daily 05/02/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.” The Magician’s Nephew (Published on 5/2/1955) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On May 2, 1955 we found out how Narnia began because The Magician’s Nephew was …
CSL Daily 05/01/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us: we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.” Letter to Father Peter Bide on 4/29/1959 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The first of The Screwtape …
CSL Daily 04/30/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The demand for equality has two sources; one of them is among the noblest, the other is the basest, of human emotions. The noble source is the desire for fair play. But the other source is the hatred of superiority.” Democratic Education (First published in the Notes on the Way …
CSL Daily 04/29/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” On Three Ways of Writing for Children (Talk given on 4/29/1952) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Found in On Stories, “On Three Ways of Writing for …