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 …
CSL Daily 4/13/17
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 …
CSL Daily 4/12/17
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. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The more we get what we now call ‘ourselves’ out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly …
CSL Daily 4/11/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Letters to Children was published on April 11, 1985, but its content can also be found in the Collected Letters released in the 2000’s. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “To become new men means losing what we now call ‘ourselves’. Out of our selves, into Christ, we must go.” …
CSL Daily 4/10/17
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 4/09/17
FACT OF THE DAY: On April 9, 1941 Lewis gave 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 except the emotional strength of …
CSL Daily 4/08/17
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 4/07/17
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 …
CSL Daily 4/06/17
FACT OF THE DAY: 22nd installment of what eventually became part of The Great Divorce was published today (4/6) in The Guardian in 1945. – – – 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 …
CSL Daily 4/05/17
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 …