[UPDATED 1/9/19 – To reflect the fact that the postings are now in my EssentialCSLewis FB Group and that it is also being shared on my Twitter page.] Many of you know I’m on a crusade to rid the world of false C.S. Lewis quotations. That’s why I started a series online back in 2015 (and …
Read the full post →“1st Annual C.S. Lewis Quotathon Coming – January 6th-12th”
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If there were anything outside Nature, and if it interfered – then the events which the scientist expected wouldn’t follow. That would be what we call a miracle.” Religion and Science (Published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph on 1/3/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The essay “Religion and Science” was published …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights.” Reflections on the Psalms (Published in paperback in the UK 1/2/1961) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The paperback edition of Reflections of the Psalms was published on Jan. 2, 1961. It was first released in 1958. – – …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy…For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.” Reflections on the Psalms (Published in paperback in the UK 1/2/1961) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On Jan. 1, 1931 Lewis began the …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When I was a youngster, all the progressive people were saying, ‘Why all this prudery? Let us treat sex just as we treat all our other impulses.’ I was simple-minded enough to believe they meant what they said. I have since discovered that they meant exactly the opposite. They meant that …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We must get rid of our arrogant assumption that it is the masses who can be led by the nose. As far as I can make out, the shoe is on the other foot. The only people who are really the dupes of their favourite newspapers are the intelligentsia. It is they who …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “‘Great works’ (of art) and ‘good works’ (of charity) had better also be Good Work. Let choirs sing well or not at all.” Good Work and Good Works (Published in Good Work in Christmas, 1959 issue) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce VIII” was …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “In a rational world, things would be made because they were wanted; in the actual world, wants have to be created in order that people may receive money for making the things.” Good Work and Good Works (Published in Good Work in Christmas, 1959 issue) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “On …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce VII (Published in The Guardian on 12/22/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On Dec. 27, 1918 Lewis arrived home unexpectedly in the morning after being demobilized on the 24th. – – –
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “In this world everything is upside down. That which, if it could be prolonged here, would be a truancy, is likest that which in a better country is the End of ends. Joy is the serious business of Heaven.” Beyond the Bright Blur (Published 12/25/1963; chapter 17 of Letters to Malcolm) – …
