FACT OF THE DAY: “A Note on Comus” and “Genius and Genius” was published in The Review of English Studies in April in 1932 and 1936 respectively. – – – 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 …
CSL Daily 04/13/18
FACT OF THE DAY: 23rd & final installment of what eventually became part of The Great Divorce was published on April 13, 1945 in The Guardian. – – – 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 …
CSL Daily 04/12/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “Lilies that Fester” by Lewis was published in the April, 1955 issue of Twentieth Century and is available in The World’s Last Night. Hear an essay chat on this from my All About Jack podcast. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The more we get what we now call ‘ourselves’ out of the …
CSL Daily 04/10/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Nearly ten years after Lewis’s death, his older brother, Warnie, died on April 9, 1973 (at the age of 77). – – – 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 …
CSL Daily 04/09/18
FACT OF THE DAY: On April 9, 1941 Lewis gave what is believed to be his first Royal Air Force (RAF) talk at RAF Abingdon, Berkshire, England. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Those who stand outside all judgements of value cannot have any ground for preferring one of their own impulses to another …
CSL Daily 04/08/18
FACT OF THE DAY: On April 8, 1947 the first U.S. edition (a hardback) of The Abolition of Man was published. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Who said I disliked women? I never liked or disliked any generalisation.” Letter to Margaret Fuller on 4/8/1948 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II)
CSL Daily 04/07/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Another edition (a paperback) of A Grief Observed was published on April 7, 1966. It was first published in 1961. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I gave these talks, not because I am anyone in particular, but because I was asked to do so.” Preface to Broadcast Talks (Written on 4/6/1942)
CSL Daily 04/06/18
FACT OF THE DAY: 22nd installment of what eventually became part of The Great Divorce was published April 6, 1945 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it: or else for ever and ever the …
CSL Daily 04/05/18
FACT OF THE DAY: On Church Music was published in the April, 1949 issue of English Church Music and is available in Lewis’s Christian Reflections. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “All our offerings, whether of music or martyrdom, are like the intrinsically worthless present of a child, which a father values indeed, but values only for …
CSL Daily 04/04/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The Laws of Nature by Lewis was published on April 4, 1945 in The Coventry Evening Telegraph. It’s now found in God in the Dock. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The laws of Nature explain everything except the source of events.” The Laws of Nature (Published April 4, 1945 in The Coventry Evening Telegraph)