FACT OF THE DAY: On September 22, 1944 “The Death of Words” was published in The Spectator. It was republished in On Stories. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The most important sense of a word is not always the most useful. What is the good of deepening a word’s connotation if you deprive the word …
CSL Daily 09/21/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “The Sermon and the Lunch” was first published on September 21, 1945 in Church of England Newspaper. It’s now in God in the Dock. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The greed to be loved is a fearful thing. Some of those who say (and almost with pride) that they live only …
CSL Daily 09/20/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Christian Behaviour, the third BBC series for Lewis began on September 20, 1942. The first talk was “The Three Parts of Morality.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Think of humanity as a band playing a tune. To get a good result, you need two things. Each player’s individual instrument …
CSL Daily 09/19/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Surprised By Joy: The Shape of My Early Life by Lewis was published September 19, 1955. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Joy is not a substitute for sex; sex is very often a substitute for Joy. I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for Joy.” Surprised By Joy …
CSL Daily 09/18/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “The Landing” is a poem published in Punch on Sept. 15, 1948; a revised version is in Poems. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The limit of giving is to be the limit of our ability to give.” English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (Published 9/16/1954) Learn More Details about The Misquotable C.S. …
CSL Daily 09/17/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe began being dramatized on BBC radio in six weekly installments on September 18, 1959. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our philosophy [belief system], not our whole philosophy on a feeling.” Religion: …
CSL Daily 09/16/18
FACT OF THE DAY: English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama by Lewis was published September 16, 1954. (It was nearly 30 years in the making). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The rule of decorum exists to avoid clashes or shocks to organized sensibility: but it was an early discovery that an occasional …
CSL Daily 09/15/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The Voyage of the ‘Dawn Treader’ was first published on September 15th 1952. It was the third released Narnia story. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Aslan, speaking to Lucy] “But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But …
CSL Daily 09/14/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “The Adam Unparadised” is a poem first published on September 14, 1949 in Punch as “A Footnote to Pre-History.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The educated man habitually, almost without noticing it, sees the present as something that grows out of a long perspective of centuries.” “God in the Dock” (First …
CSL Daily 09/13/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The Weight of Glory was published in the U.S. on September 13, 1949, and later updated in 1980. It was first released under the title Transposition in the U.K. in 1949. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek …