QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is quite right to go away from [the words of the Bible] for a moment in order to make some special point clear. But you must always go back.” Good Infection (Initially a BBC broadcast from 3/7/44) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Good Infection, the third of the …
CSL Daily 03/06/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Once we have accepted an omniscient & providential God, the distinction we used to draw between the significant and the fortuitous must either break down or be restated in some v. much subtler form.” Letter to Sheldon Vanauken 3/6/1955 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – …
CSL Daily 03/05/20
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) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On March 5, 1908, when Lewis was just 9, he recorded in his diary that he had read Paradise Lost. – – – Have you seen …
CSL Daily 03/04/20
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 in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C.S. Lewis became available for …
CSL Daily 03/03/20
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 Home? or The Grand Divorce XVII (Published in The Guardian on 3/2/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis read his paper “The Personal Heresy in Poetics” to …
CSL Daily 03/02/20
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 of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Sir Walter Scott” was a talk Lewis gave on …
CSL Daily 03/01/20
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) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Of Lewis’s two pre-Christian books of poetry, only Dymer was republished during his lifetime. – – – Have you seen my YouTube channel? It’s …
CSL Daily 02/28/20
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) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Dark Tower and Other Stories was published on February 28, 1977. – – – Have you seen my …
CSL Daily 02/27/20
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 of Michael.” The Screwtape Letters and Screwtape Proposes a Toast (From new preface first published on 2/27/1961) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Screwtape Letters …
CSL Daily 02/26/20
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.” The Abolition of Man (First a lecture from 2/26/1943 from the eventual The Abolition of Man) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The 3rd and final Riddell …