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 lecture from 2/25/1943 from the eventual The Abolition of Man) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The 2nd Riddell Memorial Lecture entitled “The Way” by Lewis was given on …
CSL Daily 02/24/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.” Men Without Chests (First a lecture from 2/24/1943 from the eventual The Abolition of Man) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: During the evening of February 24, 1943 Lewis gave the 1st talk (“Men Without Chests”) of …
CSL Daily 02/23/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It’s only the little germ of a desire for God that we need to start the process.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XVI (Published in The Guardian on 2/23/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Narrative Poems was published for the first time in the US on February 23, 1972. …
CSL Daily 02/22/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A vague religion – all about feeling God in nature, and so on – is so attractive. It is all thrills and no work.” Making and Begetting (Initially a BBC broadcast from 2/22/44) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Making and Begetting,” the first of the 4th BBC radio series …
CSL Daily 02/21/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Is it not equally reasonable to look outside Nature for the real Originator of the natural order?” Who Was Right—Dream Lecturer or Real Lecturer? (First published on 2/21/1945 in The Coventry Evening Telegraph, it was reprinted as Two Lectures in God in the Dock) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On February 21, 1945 …
CSL Daily 02/20/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “First-hand knowledge is not only more worth acquiring than second-hand knowledge, but is usually much easier and more delightful to acquire.” On the Reading of Old Books (Published originally as a preface to The Incarnation of the Word of God in 1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: John, the main …
CSL Daily 02/19/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.” On the Reading of Old Books (Published originally as a preface to The Incarnation of the Word of God in 1944) – – – FACT OF …
CSL Daily 02/18/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “To some, God is discoverable everywhere; to others, nowhere.” The Seeing Eye (Published originally as “Onward Christian Spacemen” in the February, 1963 edition of Show) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On February 18, 1938, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote a letter to his publisher to consider Lewis’s manuscript of Out of the Silent Planet. – – – PURCHASE The …
CSL Daily 02/17/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Christian…does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.” The Practical Conclusion (BBC talk given on 2/15/1942) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Cosmic Trilogy (a collection of all three Sci-Fi books by Lewis) was …
CSL Daily 02/16/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.” The Screwtape Letters (Released in the U.S. on 2/16/1943) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Screwtape Letters was published in the U.S. on February 16, 1943, but was …