FACT OF THE DAY: The Pilgrim’s Regress: An Allegorical Apology for Christianity, Reason and Romanticism was published on May 25, 1933. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “How God loves us: not because we are lovable but because He is love, not because He needs to receive but He delights to give.” Letter to Genia …
CSL Daily 05/24/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s obituary of Charles Walter Stansby Williams (1886-1945) was published in The Oxford Magazine on May 24, 1945). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Advises:) “Teach them to estimate the value of each prayer by their success in producing the desired feeling.” The Screwtape Letters IV (Published in The Guardian on 5/23/1941) More Details …
CSL Daily 05/23/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The fourth Screwtape letter was published May 23, 1941 in The Guardian. It deal with “the painful subject of prayer.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Boasts:) “It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things …
CSL Daily 05/22/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Dangerous Oversight is a poem by Lewis published in Punch on May 21, 1947 and revised and re-titled Young King Cole in Poems. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Only the courteous can love, but it is love that makes them courteous.” The Allegory of Love (Publish 5/21/1936) More Details about The Misquotable C.S. Lewis
CSL Daily 05/21/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The Allegory of Love was published on May 21, 1936. It was Lewis’ first academic title. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The function of allegory is not to hide but to reveal, and it is properly used only for that which cannot be said, or so well said, in literal …
CSL Daily 05/20/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis spoke on “Religion without Dogma?” on May 20, 1946 before the Oxford Socratic Club. An updated version is in God in the Dock. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[The] scientific method merely shows…that if miracles did occur, science, as science, could not prove, or disprove, their occurrence.” Religion without …
CSL Daily 05/19/18
FACT OF THE DAY: What the Bird Said Early in the Year is a revised poem first published on May 19, 1938 as Chanson D’Aventure in The Oxford Magazine. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A new Nature is being not merely made but made out of an old one. We live amid all the …
CSL Daily 05/18/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s mother, Florence Augusta Hamilton, was born on May 18, 1862. She went by “Flora.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A country clergyman wrote to the editor (of The Guardian), withdrawing his subscription on the ground that ‘much of the advice given in these letters seemed to him not only erroneous …
CSL Daily 05/17/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The Planets, a poem by Lewis was first published in the May, 1935 issue of Lysistrata, II. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of scepticism about scepticism itself.” Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism (Talk given on 5/11/1959) More Details about The Misquotable …
CSL Daily 05/16/18
FACT OF THE DAY: On May 16, 1941 the third letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Keep his mind off the most elementary duties by directing it to the most advanced and spiritual ones.” The Screwtape Letters III (Published in The Guardian on 5/16/1941) More Details about The Misquotable C.S. …