FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis wrote his preface to the first edition of The Screwtape Letters on this day (7/5) in 1941. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There are two equal and opposite errors into which can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, …
CSL Daily 7/4
FACT OF THE DAY: The tenth installment of The Screwtape Letters was published today (7/4) in 1941 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape commenting on the patient faking cynical and skeptical attitudes): “All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.” The Screwtape Letters X (Published in The Guardian on 7/4/1941)
CSL Daily 7/3
FACT OF THE DAY: The Second Edition of Studies in Words was released this month (July 6th) in 1967 with three new words/chapters. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “In general…the poet’s route to our emotions lies through our imaginations.” Studies in Words, 2nd Edition (Published in 7/6/1967)
CSL Daily 7/2
FACT OF THE DAY: The Expedition to Holly Bush Hill was published in the July 1913 issue of Cherbourg School Magazine; a difference Lewis essay from 1912. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.” The Four Loves (U.S. edition first published 7/27/1960)
CSL Daily 7/10
FACT OF THE DAY: Present Concerns, an essay collection, came out on this day (July 10) in 1986. At the time all 19 essays had not previously been collected. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The knight…is not a compromise or happy mean between ferocity and meekness; he is fierce to the nth …
CSL Daily 7/1
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis wrote a letter to the editor on this day (7/1) in 1949 to Church Times. It’s in God in the Dock as “The Church’s Liturgy.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When natural things look most divine, the demoniac is just round the corner.” The Four Loves (U.S. edition …
CSL Daily 6/30
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s book review of “The Allegory of the ‘Faerie Queen’” was published in the 6/11/60 issue of The Cambridge Review. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We should mind humiliation less if [we] were humbler.” Letters to An American Lady (Published in the UK June, 1969; letter written March 31, 1954)
CSL Daily 6/29
FACT OF THE DAY: The ninth letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian at the end of June (the 27th) in 1941. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy has produced, at times, or in ways, or in …
CSL Daily 6/28
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis received an honorary Doctor of Divinity from the University of St. Andrews on this day (6/28) in 1946. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Think of yourself just as a seed patiently wintering in the earth; waiting to come up a flower in the Gardener’s good time, up into …
CSL Daily 6/27
FACT OF THE DAY: The first paperback edition of The Magician’s Nephew came out today (6/27) in 1963 (first published 5/2/55). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “You can’t get second things by putting them first; you can get second things only by putting first things first.” First and Second Things (Published in Time …