QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.” Miserable Offenders: An Interpretation of Prayer Book Language (Sermon Preached 3/31/1946) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis preached “Miserable Offenders: An Interpretation of Prayer Book Language” at …
CSL Daily 03/30/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Friendship is unnecessary…it has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” The Four Loves (Published on 3/28/1960) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On March 7, 1945 Lewis wrote a letter to Mr. McClain turning down an offer for a speaking …
CSL Daily 03/29/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[In Heaven there] is joy that cannot be shaken. Our light can swallow up your darkness: but your darkness cannot now infect our light.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XXI (Published in The Guardian on 3/29/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: 21st installment of what eventually became part of The …
CSL Daily 03/28/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.” The Four Loves (Published on 3/28/1960) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Four Loves was released on March 28, 1960 and had first been a ten-part series of broadcasts. – – – PURCHASE The …
CSL Daily 03/27/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.” The Last Battle (said by Aslan) (Published on 3/19/1956) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Unreal Estates,” a transcript of an interview with Lewis and others was published in the March, 1965 edition of Encounter. …
CSL Daily 03/26/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now…Come further up, come further in!” The Last Battle (said by Jewel the Unicorn) (Published on 3/19/1956) – – …
CSL Daily 03/25/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Symbolism exists precisely for the purpose of conveying to the imagination what the intellect is not ready for.” Letter to Sister Penelope CSMV on 3/25/1943 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On March 25, 1987 the US edition of Present Concerns, a …
CSL Daily 03/24/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Any entity describable without gross abuse of language as God must be ultimate reality, and if ultimate reality is personal, then God is personal.” Must Our Image of God Go? (Published in The Observer on 3/24/63) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Must Our Image of God Go?” is an essay published by Lewis in The …
CSL Daily 03/23/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.” Let’s Pretend (Initially a BBC broadcast from 3/21/44) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s first collection of shorter works, Rehabilitations and Other Essays was published on March 23, 1939. – – – PURCHASE The Misquotable C.S. Lewis
CSL Daily 03/22/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The price of Christ is something, in a way, much easier than moral effort – it is to want Him.” Three Kinds of Men (Published in The Sunday Times 3/21/43) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Three Kinds of Men is a short essay by Lewis that was published in The Sunday Times on March …