FACT OF THE DAY: On July 19, 1943 “The Anvil” (a BBC radio program) recorded its show with Lewis as one of the guests. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Boasts:) “The safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.” The …
CSL Daily 07/18/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Proudly States:) “The only thing that matters is the extent to which you separate the man from the Enemy [God]. It does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing.” The …
CSL Daily 07/17/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “You get one experience of a thing when you look along it and another when you look at it.” Meditation in a Toolshed (Published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph on 7/17/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The classic “Meditation in a Toolshed” essay was published on July 17, 1945 in The Coventry …
CSL Daily 07/16/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We have seen that every moral judgement involves facts, intuition and reasoning, and, if we are wise enough to be humble, it will involve some regard for authority as well.” from Why I Am Not A Pacifist (Reprinted in Timeless at Heart on 7/16/1987) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: A collection …
CSL Daily 07/15/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “All my seven Narnian books, and my three science fiction books, began with seeing pictures in my head.” It All Began with a Picture (Published in Radio Times on 7/15/1960) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “It All Began with a Picture” was an essay published in Radio Times on July 15, 1960. …
CSL Daily 07/14/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[Flippancy] is a thousand miles away from joy; it deadens, instead of sharpening, the intellect; and it excites no affection between those who practice it.” The Screwtape Letters XI (Published in The Guardian on 7/11/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Imagination and Thought in the Middle Ages” is a talk …
CSL Daily 07/13/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later. He may break his promise to you, but if you try breaking one to him he will be complaining ‘It’s not …
CSL Daily 07/12/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Flippancy builds up around a man the finest armour-plating against the Enemy [God].” The Screwtape Letters XI (Published in The Guardian on 7/11/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: First and Second Things is an essay collection released on July 11, 1985 that actually contains material found in God in the Dock. – …
CSL Daily 07/11/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I don’t believe that good work is ever done in a hurry.” Letter to Arthur Greeves 7/11/1916 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume I) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The eleventh letter from Screwtape was published on July 11, 1941 in The Guardian. Better understand The Screwtape …
CSL Daily 07/10/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The knight…is not a compromise or happy mean between ferocity and meekness; he is fierce to the nth and meek to the nth.” The Necessity of Chivalry (Available in Present Concern published 7/10/1986) BONUS: Hear an essay chat podcast on “The Necessity of Chivalry” (guest is Dr. Bruce Johnson) – – – FACT OF THE …