QUOTE OF THE DAY: “First-hand knowledge is not only more worth acquiring than second-hand knowledge, but is usually much easier and more delightful to acquire.” On the Reading of Old Books (Published originally as a preface to The Incarnation of the Word of God in 1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: John, the main character …
CSL Daily 02/19/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.” On the Reading of Old Books (Published originally as a preface to The Incarnation of the Word of God in 1944) – – – FACT OF THE …
CSL Daily 02/18/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “To some, God is discoverable everywhere; to others, nowhere.” The Seeing Eye (Published originally as “Onward Christian Spacemen” in the February, 1963 edition of Show) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On February 18, 1938, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote a letter to his publisher to consider Lewis’s manuscript of Out of the Silent Planet. – – – PURCHASE The Misquotable …
CSL Daily 02/17/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Christian…does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.” The Practical Conclusion (BBC talk given on 2/15/1942) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Cosmic Trilogy (a collection of all three Sci-Fi books by Lewis) was released …
CSL Daily 02/16/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.” The Screwtape Letters (Released in the U.S. on 2/16/1943) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Screwtape Letters was published in the U.S. on February 16, 1943, but was …
CSL Daily 02/15/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We have to take reality as it comes to us: there is no good jabbering about what it ought to be like or what we should have expected it to be like.” The Practical Conclusion (BBC talk given on 2/15/1942) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The final radio talk from the second …
CSL Daily 02/14/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Bereavement is not the truncation of married love but one of its regular phases—like the honeymoon. What we want is to live our marriage well and faithfully through that phase too. If it hurts (and it certainly will) we accept the pains as a necessary part of this phase.” A Grief …
CSL Daily 02/13/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “God…is related to the universe more as an author is related to a play than as one object in the universe is related to another.” The Seeing Eye (Published originally as “Onward Christian Spacemen” in the February, 1963 edition of Show) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: In February 1963 “Onward Christian Spacemen” was …
CSL Daily 02/12/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[Charles Williams writes] that sort of book in which we begin by saying, ‘Let us suppose that this everyday world were, at some one point, invaded by the marvellous. Let us, in fact, suppose a violation of frontier.’” The Novels of Charles Williams (Talk recorded and aired on 2/11/1949; now found …
CSL Daily 02/11/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “To find that one’s emotions do not ‘come to heel’ and line up as stable sentiments in permanent conformity with one’s convictions is simply the facts of being a fallen, and still imperfectly redeemed, man.” Letter to Michael Edwardson 2/11/1960 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – …