FACT OF THE DAY: On January 11, 1942 Lewis gave his first talk in the second BBC series called “What Christians Believe.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in this world …
CSL Daily 01/10/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The January 10, 1941 issue of The Guardian included “Meditation on the Third Commandment” from Lewis. Hear a podcast “essay chat” on this shorter work over at All About Jack via this direct link. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The danger of mistaking our merely natural, though perhaps legitimate, enthusiasms for …
CSL Daily 01/09/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “The Birth of Language” is a poem by Lewis published January 9, 1946 in Punch (it uses planetary imagery). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “May God’s grace give you the necessary humility. Try not to think—much less, speak—of their sins. One’s own are a much more profitable theme!” Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne (from …
CSL Daily 01/08/18
FACT OF THE DAY: On January 8, 1955 Lewis’s article “George Orwell” was published in Time and Tide. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The question is not whether we should bring God into our work or not. We certainly should and must…Each vocation has its peculiar dangers and peculiar rewards.” Letter to Sheldon Vanauken (from …
CSL Daily 01/07/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis spent the first night in his new rooms at Magdalene College, Cambridge on January 7, 1955. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.” The Abolition of Man (Published on 1/6/1944)
CSL Daily 01/06/18
FACT OF THE DAY: On January 6, 1944 The Abolition of Man was first published. It came from a series of lectures from Feb. 1943. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved.” The Abolition of Man (Published on 1/6/1944)
CSL Daily 01/05/18
FACT OF THE DAY: On January 5, 1945 the ninth installment of (the eventual) The Great Divorce (chapter seven) was published in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “In praying for people one dislikes I find it helpful to remember that one is joining in His prayer for them.” Letter to Mary Van Deusen (from The Collected …
CSL Daily 01/04/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The book Screwtape Proposes a Toast, an essay collection, was first published on Jan. 4, 1965 (it’s now out of print). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see …
CSL Daily 01/03/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The essay “Religion and Science” was published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph on Jan. 3, 1945. – – – 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 …
CSL Daily 01/02/18
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: “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)