QUOTE OF THE DAY: “What we practise, not (save at rare intervals) what we preach, is usually our great contribution to the conversion of others.” Letter to Mrs. Johnson 3/2/1955 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Memory of Sir Walter Scott” was a talk Lewis …
CSL Daily 03/01/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The one really adequate instrument for learning about God is the whole Christian community.” The Three-Personal God (Initially a BBC broadcast from 2/29/44) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Of Lewis’s two pre-Christian books of poetry, only Dymer was republished during his lifetime. – – – PURCHASE The Misquotable C.S. Lewis
CSL Daily 02/28/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If a man’s self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred.” The Three-Personal God (Initially a BBC broadcast from 2/29/44) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Dark Tower and Other Stories was published on February 28, 1977. – – – PURCHASE The Misquotable C.S. Lewis
CSL Daily 02/27/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite…Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.” The Screwtape Letters and Screwtape Proposes a Toast (From new preface first published on 2/27/1961) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Screwtape Letters …
CSL Daily 02/26/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.” The Abolition of Man (First a lecture from 2/26/1943 from the eventual The Abolition of Man) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The 3rd and final Riddell Memorial …
CSL Daily 02/25/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of imagining a new primary colour.” The Way (First a lecture from 2/25/1943 from the eventual The Abolition of Man) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The 2nd Riddell Memorial Lecture entitled “The Way” by Lewis was given February 25, 1943. It …
CSL Daily 02/24/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.” Men Without Chests (First a lecture from 2/24/1943 from the eventual The Abolition of Man) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: During the evening of February 24, 1943 Lewis gave the 1st talk (“Men Without Chests”) of the …
CSL Daily 02/23/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It’s only the little germ of a desire for God that we need to start the process.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XVI (Published in The Guardian on 2/23/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Narrative Poems was published for the first time in the US on February 23, 1972. …
CSL Daily 02/22/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A vague religion – all about feeling God in nature, and so on – is so attractive. It is all thrills and no work.” Making and Begetting (Initially a BBC broadcast from 2/22/44) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Making and Begetting,” the first of the 4th BBC radio series was …
CSL Daily 02/21/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Is it not equally reasonable to look outside Nature for the real Originator of the natural order?” Who Was Right—Dream Lecturer or Real Lecturer? (First published on 2/21/1945 in The Coventry Evening Telegraph, it was reprinted as Two Lectures in God in the Dock) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On February 21, 1945 …