QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved.” The Abolition of Man (Published on 1/6/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On January 6, 1944 The Abolition of Man was first published. It came from a series of lectures from Feb. 1943. – – – PURCHASE The Misquotable C.S. Lewis
CSL Daily 01/05/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “In praying for people one dislikes I find it helpful to remember that one is joining in His prayer for them.” Letter to Mary Van Deusen (from The Collected Letters Of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3 on 1/5/1951) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On January 5, 1945 the ninth installment of (the eventual) The Great Divorce (chapter …
CSL Daily 01/04/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” from “Is Theology Poetry?” (Published in Screwtape Proposes a Toast on 1/4/1965) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The book Screwtape Proposes a Toast, an essay collection, …
CSL Daily 01/03/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If there were anything outside Nature, and if it interfered – then the events which the scientist expected wouldn’t follow. That would be what we call a miracle.” Religion and Science (Published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph on 1/3/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The essay “Religion and Science” was published …
CSL Daily 01/02/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights.” Reflections on the Psalms (Published in paperback in the UK 1/2/1961) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The paperback edition of Reflections on the Psalms was published on Jan. 2, 1961. It was first released in 1958. – – …
CSL Daily 01/01/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy…For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.” Reflections on the Psalms (Published in paperback in the UK 1/2/1961) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On Jan. 1, 1931 Lewis began the …
CSL Daily 12/31/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When I was a youngster, all the progressive people were saying, ‘Why all this prudery? Let us treat sex just as we treat all our other impulses.’ I was simple-minded enough to believe they meant what they said. I have since discovered that they meant exactly the opposite. They meant that …
CSL Daily 12/30/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We must get rid of our arrogant assumption that it is the masses who can be led by the nose. As far as I can make out, the shoe is on the other foot. The only people who are really the dupes of their favourite newspapers are the intelligentsia. It is they who …
CSL Daily 12/29/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “‘Great works’ (of art) and ‘good works’ (of charity) had better also be Good Work. Let choirs sing well or not at all.” Good Work and Good Works (Published in Good Work in Christmas, 1959 issue) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce VIII” was …
CSL Daily 12/28/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “In a rational world, things would be made because they were wanted; in the actual world, wants have to be created in order that people may receive money for making the things.” Good Work and Good Works (Published in Good Work in Christmas, 1959 issue) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “On …