FACT OF THE DAY: Beyond the Bright Blur was a limited edition title published today (Dec. 25) in 1963 that contained chapters 15-17 of Letters to Malcolm. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[God] must constantly work as the iconoclast. Every idea of Him we form, He must in mercy shatter. The most blessed …
CSL Daily 12/24
FACT OF THE DAY: On this day (Dec. 24) in 1918 Lewis was demobilized from the army after being discharged from the hospital. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The degraded commercialism of our minds is quite as much its result as its cause.” Good Work and Good Works (Published in Good Work in Christmas, …
CSL Daily 12/23
FACT OF THE DAY: “Good Work and Good Works” by Lewis was published in the Christmas 1959 issue of Good Work (formerly Catholic Art Quarterly). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The apostle says every one must not only work but work to produce what is ‘good.’” Good Work and Good Works (Published in …
CSL Daily 12/22
FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce VII” was published today (Dec. 22) in 1944 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I will bring you to the land not of questions but of answers, and you shall see the face of God.” Who Goes Home? or The …
CSL Daily 12/21
FACT OF THE DAY: “We Have No ‘Right to Happiness’” was first published in the December 21-28, 1963 edition of The Saturday Evening Post. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We depend for a very great deal of our happiness or misery on circumstances outside all human control. A right to happiness doesn’t, for …
CSL Daily 12/20
FACT OF THE DAY: Letters to an American Lady was first released on December 19, 1967 and at the time the name of the lady wasn’t revealed. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing … it is irresistible. If …
CSL Daily 12/19
FACT OF THE DAY: “Screwtape Proposes a Toast” first appeared today (Dec. 19) in 1959 in The Saturday Evening Post. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Democracy is the word with which you must lead them by the nose. The good work which our philological experts have already done in the corruption of human language …
CSL Daily 12/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “What Christmas Means to Me” was published in the December, 1957 issue of Twentieth Century magazine. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The idea that not only all friends but even all acquaintances should give one another presents, or at least send one another cards, is quite modern and has …
CSL Daily 12/16
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis mentioned “Tolkien’s unfinished sequel to the Hobbit” in the preface of Essays Presented to Charles Williams (a book Lewis edited and published in 1947). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Of all passions the passion for the Inner Ring is most skillful in making a man who is not …
CSL Daily 12/15
FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce VI” was published today (Dec. 15) in 1944 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A jealous man, drifting and unresisting, reaches a point at which he believes lies about his best friend…But errors which are sincere in that sense are …