FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s poem “Vitrea Circe” was published in Punch on June 23, 1948 and was revised and reprinted in Poems. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Admits:) “Prayers offered in the state of dryness are those which please Him (God) best.” The Screwtape Letters VIII (Published in The Guardian on 6/20/1941)
CSL Daily 6/22/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis showed the galley proofs for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe to the Inklings on June 22, 1950. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is not really you who are holding fast to Him but He to you: and He will bring you to wherever He wants.” …
CSL Daily 6/21/17
FACT OF THE DAY: An Expostulation (against too many writers of science fiction) – a poem from Lewis was published in the June, 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Glory, as Christianity teaches me to hope for it, turns out to satisfy my original …
CSL Daily 6/20/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The eighth Screwtape letter was published in The Guardian on June 20, 1941. It has the first mention of Slubgob. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Admits:) “One must face the fact that all the talk about His [God’s] love for men, and His service being perfect freedom, is not …
CSL Daily 6/19/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “Membership” was published in the June 1945 issue of Sobornost. Previously it was a talk given in February to the Society of St. Alban and St. Sergius in Oxford. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “How God thinks of us is not only more important, but infinitely more important. Indeed, …
CSL Daily 6/18/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Daily Readings with C.S. Lewis came out on June 18, 1992. It was republished as C.S. Lewis: Readings for Meditation and Reflection. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, …
CSL Daily 6/17/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The paperback edition of The Personal Heresy by Lewis (with E.M.W. Tillyard) was published on June 17, 1965. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. Remember, though we struggle against things because we are afraid of them, it is often the …
CSL Daily 6/16/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s brother, Warren “Warnie” Hamilton Lewis was born on June 16, 1895. He wrote books on French History. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We want the Church to be small not only that fewer men may know the Enemy but also that those who do may acquire the uneasy …
CSL Daily 6/15/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s appointment at Magdalen College at Oxford officially began on June 15, 1925 and lasted nearly three decades. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself— to dream that you have waked, washed, and …
CSL Daily 6/14/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis finished his academic studies at Oxford near the end of June, 1923, beginning his exams on the 14th. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Perfect humility dispenses with modesty. If God is satisfied with the work, the work my be satisfied with itself.” The Weight of Glory (Sermon preached …