QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Where, except in the present, can the Eternal be met?” Historicism (Published in October, 1950 issue of The Month) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Historicism” is an article published in the October, 1950 issue of The Month. It’s reprinted in Christian Reflections. – – – PURCHASE The Misquotable C.S. Lewis …
CSL Daily 09/30/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “What I want is a straight fight between the new morality and that of the law.” Sex in Literature (Published 9/30/1962 in The Sunday Telegraph) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On Sept. 30, 1962 “Sex in Literature” was published in The Sunday Telegraph. – – – PURCHASE The Misquotable C.S. Lewis …
CSL Daily 09/29/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.” A Grief Observed (Published 9/29/1961) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: A Grief Observed was published on Sept. 29, 1961, but it wasn’t until after his death that it was …
CSL Daily 09/28/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[Christianity] was never intended to replace or supersede the ordinary human arts and sciences: it is rather a director which will set them all to the right jobs, and a source of energy which will give them all new life, if only they will put themselves at its disposal.” Social …
CSL Daily 09/27/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.” Social Morality (Broadcast on BBC on 9/27/1942; Chapter two from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The 2nd talk in the third BBC series (Christian Behaviour) was broadcast on …
CSL Daily 09/26/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Complains:) “Everything has to be twisted before it’s any use to us [devils].” The Screwtape Letters – XXII (First published in The Guardian on 9/26/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The 22nd Screwtape letter was published on September 26, 1941 in The Guardian (before being released in 1942 as a single book). …
CSL Daily 09/25/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Observes:) “Men are not angered by mere misfortune but by misfortune conceived as injury.” The Screwtape Letters – XXI (First published in The Guardian on 9/19/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On September 25, 1929 Lewis’ father (Albert) died. His financial support was vital to Lewis getting his degrees …
CSL Daily 09/24/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.” Out of the Silent Planet (Published 9/23/1938) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On September 12, 1951 “The Country of the Blind” is a poem first published in Punch and available in Poems. – – – PURCHASE The Misquotable C.S. Lewis
CSL Daily 09/23/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory.” Out of the Silent Planet (Published 9/23/1938) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Out of the Silent Planet was first published on September 23, 1938. It was his second fictional story for Lewis as a Christian. – …
CSL Daily 09/22/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The most important sense of a word is not always the most useful. What is the good of deepening a word’s connotation if you deprive the word of all practicable denotation?” The Death of Words (Published 9/22/1944 in The Spectator) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On September 22, 1944 …