QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Hope…a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think) a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.” Christian Behaviour (Published 4/19/1943) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Christian Behaviour was first published on April 19, …
CSL Daily 04/18/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is a curious fact that the advice we can give to others we cannot give to ourselves and truth is more effective through any life rather than our own.” Letter to Sister Penelope (sent 11/19/1941) (First available in Letters of C.S. Lewis published 4/18/1966) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Letters of …
CSL Daily 04/17/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The voice of God indeed daily calls to us; calls to the world to abandon sins and seek the Kingdom of God wholeheartedly. O that we may all hear the call of the Father and, sometime, at last be converted to the Lord.” Letter to Don Giovanni Calabria on 4/17/1949 (Published in The …
CSL Daily 04/16/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The question ‘Who is in the right’ (in a given quarrel) is quite distinct from the question ‘Who is righteous?’— for the worse of two disputants may always be in the right on one particular issue.” Letter to Dom Bede Griffiths OSB on 4/16/1940 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, …
CSL Daily 04/15/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Christian story is precisely the story of one grand miracle, the Christian assertion being that what is beyond all space and time, what is uncreated, eternal, came into nature, into human nature, descended into His own universe, and rose again, bringing nature up with Him.” The Grand Miracle (Sermon …
CSL Daily 04/14/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “But let us thank God that we are still very far from travel to other worlds. I have wondered before now whether the vast astronomical distances may not be God’s quarantine precautions. They prevent the spiritual infection of a fallen species from spreading.” Religion and Rocketry (initially titled Will We Lose …
CSL Daily 04/13/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Only the Greatest of all can make Himself small enough to enter Hell. For the higher a thing is, the lower it can descend.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XXIII (Published in The Guardian on 4/13/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: 23rd & final installment of what eventually …
CSL Daily 04/12/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The more we get what we now call ‘ourselves’ out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become…our real selves are all waiting for us in Him.” The New Men (Initially a BBC broadcast from 4/4/44) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: …
CSL Daily 04/11/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “To become new men means losing what we now call ‘ourselves’. Out of our selves, into Christ, we must go.” The New Men (Initially a BBC broadcast from 4/4/44) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Letters to Children was published on April 11, 1985, but its content can also be found …
CSL Daily 04/10/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[God] can’t be used as a road. If you’re approaching Him not as the goal but as a road, not as the end but as a means, you’re not really approaching Him at all.” A Grief Observed (Paperback edition published 4/7/1966) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Nearly ten years …