FACT OF THE DAY: On May 5, 1924 Lewis accepted a temporary position to teach philosophy at Oxford (his former tutor was taking a one-year leave). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: Screwtape’s observation of humans: “Thanks to processes which we set at work in them centuries ago, they find it all but impossible to …
CSL Daily 05/04/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The first paperback edition of Lewis’s spiritual autobiography, Surprised by Joy was published May 4, 1959. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Yes— it is sometimes hard to obey St. Paul’s ‘Rejoice.’ We must try to take life moment by moment. The actual present is usually pretty tolerable, I think, if only …
CSL Daily 05/03/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s article “Two Ways with the Self” was published on May 3, 1940 in The Guardian. It’s available in God in the Dock. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There are two kinds of self-hatred which look rather alike in their earlier stages, but of which one is wrong from the beginning …
CSL Daily 05/02/18
FACT OF THE DAY: On May 2, 1955 we found out how Narnia began because The Magician’s Nephew was first published! Hear a podcast discussion about it from my All About Jack podcast. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also …
CSL Daily 05/01/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The first of The Screwtape Letters debuted this month (May 2nd) in 1941 when it appeared in The Guardian (a weekly newspaper). Gain more from this material with my enhanced study guide, C.S. Lewis Goes to Hell: A Companion and Study Guide to The Screwtape Letters. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We are not …
CSL Daily 04/30/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis gave a talk on April 30, 1953 at the Socratic Club on “Faith and Evidence.” It was later published as “On Obstinacy in Belief.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The demand for equality has two sources; one of them is among the noblest, the other is the basest, …
CSL Daily 04/29/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Found in On Stories, “On Three Ways of Writing for Children” was first a talk given on April 29, 1952 to the Library Association at Bournemouth. Hear a podcast about that essay from my All About Jack show. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When I became a man I put …
CSL Daily 04/28/18
FACT OF THE DAY: There are characters named in Narnia for every letter in the alphabet except for “x.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The more a man was in the Devil’s power, the less he would be aware of it, on the principle that a man is still fairly sober as long …
CSL Daily 04/27/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The Personal Heresy, published April 27, 1939 is the only book by Lewis with a co-author (Professor E.M.W. Tillyard). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “One never can see, or not till long afterwards, why any one was selected for any job. And when one does, it is usually some …
CSL Daily 04/26/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis began keeping a diary for nearly five years starting in April, 1922. It was released after his death as All My Road Before Me. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for.” Perelandra …