QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape Laments:] “If you try to make him explicitly and professedly proud of being a Christian, you will probably fail; the Enemy’s [God’s] warnings are too well known.” The Screwtape Letters – XXIV – Spiritual Pride (First published in The Guardian on 10/10/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The 24th letter from …
CSL Daily 10/09/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world.” Nice People or New Men (Chapter 10 of Beyond Personality; published 10/9/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Beyond Personality: The Christian Idea of God was published on Oct. 9, 1944; from the …
CSL Daily 10/08/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.” A Preface to ‘Paradise Lost’ (Published 10/8/1942) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: A Preface to ‘Paradise Lost’ was published Oct. 8, 1942. Lewis adapted it from his 1941 Ballard Matthews Lectures. – …
CSL Daily 10/07/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Good books which are remote from modern sympathy need to be treated at greater length than good books which everyone already knows and loves.” Preface to English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (Written 10/7/1953) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis wrote the preface to his scholarly work English Literature in …
CSL Daily 10/05/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him.” (Broadcast on BBC on 10/4/1942; Chapter four (Morality and Psychoanalysis) from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On Oct. 5, 1954 The Horse and His Boy …
CSL Daily 10/06/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There is thus a distinction not only between thought and imagination in general, but even between thought and those images which the thinker (falsely) believes to be true.” Horrid Red Things (Published in Church of England Newspaper on 10/6/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Horrid Red Things” was published on …
90 Sec Special #7 – The Lost Lewis Tapes (YouTube)
Here’s the seventh special (slightly extended) episode of my 90 second YouTube show. It tells about newly released recordings of the voice of C.S. Lewis that had never been heard by the public. – – – Links to information shared in this episode: Read about the Discovery Buy the downloads Wade Center Podcasts about Podcast …
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CSL Daily 10/04/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When a man makes a moral choice two things are involved. One is the act of choosing. The other is the various feelings, impulses and so on which his psychological outfit presents him with, and which are the raw material of his choice.” Morality and Psychoanalysis (Broadcast on BBC on …
CSL Daily 10/03/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Admits:) “The earliest converts were converted by a single historical fact (the Resurrection) and a single theological doctrine (the Redemption) operating on a sense of sin which they already had.” The Screwtape Letters – XXIII – The Historical Jesus (First published in The Guardian on 10/3/1941) – – – FACT OF THE …
CSL Daily 10/02/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Hobbit…will be funniest to its youngest readers, and only years later, at a tenth or a twentieth reading, will they begin to realise what deft scholarship and profound reflection have gone to make everything in it so ripe, so friendly, and in its own way so true.” A World …