FACT OF THE DAY: The first paperback edition of The Silver Chair came out on June 24, 1965 (first published September 7, 1953). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The simple physical pains and (still more) the pleasures can’t be expressed in language. I labour the point lest the devil should hereafter try to make you …
CSL Daily 06/23/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s poem “Vitrea Circe” was published in Punch on June 23, 1948 and was revised and reprinted in Poems. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Admits:) “Prayers offered in the state of dryness are those which please Him (God) best.” The Screwtape Letters VIII (Published in The Guardian on 6/20/1941) More Details about The Misquotable …
CSL Daily 06/22/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis showed the galley proofs for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe to the Inklings on June 22, 1950. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is not really you who are holding fast to Him but He to you: and He will bring you to wherever He wants.” Letter to …
CSL Daily 06/21/18
FACT OF THE DAY: An Expostulation (against too many writers of science fiction) – a poem from Lewis was published in the June, 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Glory, as Christianity teaches me to hope for it, turns out to satisfy my original desire …
CSL Daily 06/20/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The eighth Screwtape letter was published in The Guardian on June 20, 1941. It has the first mention of Slubgob. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Admits:) “One must face the fact that all the talk about His [God’s] love for men, and His service being perfect freedom, is not (as one …
CSL Daily 06/19/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “Membership” was published in the June 1945 issue of Sobornost. Previously it was a talk given in February to the Society of St. Alban and St. Sergius in Oxford. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “How God thinks of us is not only more important, but infinitely more important. Indeed, how …
CSL Daily 06/18/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Daily Readings with C.S. Lewis came out on June 18, 1992. It was republished as C.S. Lewis: Readings for Meditation and Reflection. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not …
CSL Daily 06/17/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The paperback edition of The Personal Heresy by Lewis (with E.M.W. Tillyard) was published on June 17, 1965. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. Remember, though we struggle against things because we are afraid of them, it is often the other way …
CSL Daily 06/16/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s brother, Warren “Warnie” Hamilton Lewis was born on June 16, 1895. He wrote books on French History. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape Advises:] “We want the Church to be small not only that fewer men may know the Enemy but also that those who do may acquire …
CSL Daily 06/15/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s appointment at Magdalen College at Oxford officially began on June 15, 1925 and lasted nearly three decades. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself— to dream that you have waked, washed, and …