QUOTE OF THE DAY: “One never can see, or not till long afterwards, why any one was selected for any job. And when one does, it is usually some reason that leaves no room for vanity.” Perelandra (Published 4/20/1943) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Personal Heresy, published April 27, 1939, is …
CSL Daily 04/26/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for.” Perelandra (Published 4/20/1943) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis began keeping a diary for nearly five years starting in April 1922. It was released after his death as All My …
CSL Daily 04/25/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If I remember rightly, St. Augustine raised a question about the theological position of satyrs, monopods, and other semi-human creatures. He decided it could wait till we knew there were any.” Religion and Rocketry (Published as “Will We Lose God in Outer Space” in the April, 1958 issue of Christian Herald) – …
CSL Daily 04/23/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “All the beauty of nature withers when we try to make it absolute. Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first & we lose both first and second things.” Letter to Dom Bede Griffiths OSB on 4/23/1951 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, …
CSL Daily 04/22/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.” Hamlet: The Prince or the Poem? (Lecture given on April 22, 1942 for the British Academy in London) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Hamlet: The Prince or the Poem?” is the Annual …
CSL Daily 04/21/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed. They that are whole need not the physician. Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.” Religion and Rocketry (Published as “Will We Lose God in Outer Space” in the April, 1958 …
CSL Daily 04/20/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Every joy is beyond all others. The fruit we are eating is always the best fruit of all.” Perelandra (Published 4/20/1943) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On April 20, 1942 Perelandra was published. It tells of adventures on Venus. – – – Have you seen my YouTube channel? It’s called “90 …
CSL Daily 04/19/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Hope…a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think) a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.” Christian Behaviour (Published 4/19/1943) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Christian Behaviour was first published on April 19, …
CSL Daily 04/18/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is a curious fact that the advice we can give to others we cannot give to ourselves and truth is more effective through any life rather than our own.” Letter to Sister Penelope (sent 11/19/1941) (First available in Letters of C.S. Lewis published 4/18/1966) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Letters of …
CSL Daily 04/17/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The voice of God indeed daily calls to us; calls to the world to abandon sins and seek the Kingdom of God wholeheartedly. O that we may all hear the call of the Father and, sometime, at last be converted to the Lord.” Letter to Don Giovanni Calabria on 4/17/1949 (Published in The …