FACT OF THE DAY: On March 5, 1908, when Lewis was just 9, he recorded in his diary that he had read Paradise Lost. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility.” Christianity and Culture (Published in March 1940 in Theology)
CSL Daily 3/4/17
FACT OF THE DAY: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C.S. Lewis became available for the first time on March 4, 1968. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I believe no angel ever appears in Scripture without exciting terror: they always have to begin by saying ‘Fear not.’” Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne 3/4/1953 (Published …
CSL Daily 3/3/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis read his paper “The Personal Heresy in Poetics” to a group known as the Martlets on March 3, 1930. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.” Who Goes …
CSL Daily 3/2/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “Memory of Sir Walter Scott” was a talk Lewis gave on March 2, 1956. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “What we practise, not (save at rare intervals) what we preach, is usually our great contribution to the conversion of others.” Letter to Mrs. Johnson 3/2/1955 (Published in The Collected Letters …
CSL Daily 3/1/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Of Lewis’s two pre-Christian books of poetry, only Dymer was republished during his lifetime. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The one really adequate instrument for learning about God is the whole Christian community.” The Three-Personal God (Initially a BBC broadcast from 2/29/44)
CSL Daily 2/28/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The Dark Tower and Other Stories was published on February 28, 1977. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If a man’s self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred.” The Three-Personal God (Initially a BBC broadcast from 2/29/44)
CSL Daily 2/27/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The Screwtape Letters and Screwtape Proposes a Toast was published February 27, 1961 and it included a new (longer) preface. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite…Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but …
CSL Daily 2/26/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The 3rd and final Riddell Memorial Lecture entitled “The Abolition of Man” by Lewis was given February 26. 1943. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.” …
CSL Daily 2/25/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The 2nd Riddell Memorial Lecture entitled “The Way” by Lewis was given February 25, 1943. It became part of The Abolition of Man. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of imagining a new primary colour.” The Way (First a …
CSL Daily 2/24/17
FACT OF THE DAY: During the evening of February 24, 1943 Lewis gave the 1st talk (“Men Without Chests”) of the Riddell Memorial Lectures that became The Abolition of Man. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.” Men Without Chests …