QUOTE OF THE DAY: “To convert one’s adult neighbour and one’s adolescent neighbour (just free from school) is the practical thing. . . . If you make the adults of today Christian, the children of tomorrow will receive a Christian education. What a society has, that, be sure, and nothing else, it will hand on …
CSL Daily 11/24/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “‘You mean the evening is really going to turn into a night in the end?’ ‘He nodded.’” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce III (First published in The Guardian on 11/24/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce III was published on Nov. 24, 1944 in The …
90 Sec Special #9 – C.S. Lewis Movie in the Works! (YouTube)
Here’s the ninth special episode of my 90 second YouTube show. It tells about a movie that Max McLean is involved in about the life of C.S. Lewis. – – – Links to information shared in this episode: Article about the movie Join the Confirming C.S. Lewis Quotations Group here Join the 90 Seconds to …
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CSL Daily 11/23/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Whatever men expect they soon come to think they have a right to: the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury.” The Screwtape Letters – XXX (First published in The Guardian on 11/21/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “March for …
CSL Daily 11/22/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Reveals:) The general rule which we have now pretty well established among them is that in all experiences which can make them happier or better only the physical facts are “Real” while the spiritual elements are “subjective.” The Screwtape Letters – XXX (First published in The Guardian on 11/21/1941) – – – …
CSL Daily 11/21/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: [A Warning to Wormwood]: “You will soon find that the justice of Hell is purely realistic, and concerned only with results. Bring us back food, or be food yourself.” The Screwtape Letters – XXX (First published in The Guardian on 11/21/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Screwtape Letters – XXX was …
CSL Daily 11/20/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “What we do when we imagine, then, is to suppose (with or without the support of explicit images) a reshuffling of universals taken from the actual world.” Image and Imagination (First published in Image and Imagination in November, 2013) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Image and Imagination, the last book with previously …
CSL Daily 11/18/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.” Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What’s to Be Said (First published in The New York Times Book Review on 11/18/1956) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What’s to Be Said” was first …
CSL Daily 11/17/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: [About the grey town:] “That’s one of the disappointments. I thought you’d meet interesting historical characters. But you don’t: they’re too far away.” “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce II” (First published in The Guardian on 11/17/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce II” …
CSL Daily 11/16/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The remarkable thing about [my brother’s] career is that it never occurred to him until a relatively late date that his great achievement would be prose.” Letters of C.S. Lewis – Memoir by W. H. Lewis (US edition published 11/16/1966) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On November 16, 1966 the US edition …