QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Do you place yourself in the obedience,’ said the Director, ‘in obedience to Maleldil?’ ‘Sir,’ said Jane, ‘I know nothing of Maleldil. But I place myself in obedience to you.’ ‘It is enough for the present,’ said the Director. ‘This is the courtesy of Deep Heaven: that when you mean well, …
CSL Daily 08/28/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Friends are not primarily absorbed in each other. It is when we are doing things together that friendship springs up – painting, sailing ships, praying, philosophizing, fighting shoulder to shoulder. Friends look in the same direction. Lovers look at each other: that is, in opposite directions.” Equality (Published in The Spectator on 8/27/1943) …
CSL Daily 08/27/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.” 4th BBC Broadcast (Given on 8/27/1941; Then known as What Can We Do About It) – – – FACT OF THE …
CSL Daily 08/26/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “In fighting those who serve devils one always has this on one’s side; their Masters hate them as much as they hate us.” That Hideous Strength (Published 8/16/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s father, Albert, was notorious for not liking his routine changed; this quality negatively affected …
CSL Daily 08/25/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I find that I do not exist on my own, that I am under a law; that somebody or something wants me to behave in a certain way.” 3rd BBC Broadcast(Given on 8/20/1941; Then known as Materialism or Religion) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “The Trouble with ‘X’” …
CSL Daily 08/24/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “God has made it a rule for Himself that He won’t alter people’s character by force. He can and will alter them – but only if the people will let Him.” The Trouble with ‘X’ (Published in August 1948 of Bristol Diocesan Gazette) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s mother, …
CSL Daily 08/23/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Everyone begins as a child by liking Weather. You learn the art of disliking it as you grow up.” That Hideous Strength (Published 8/16/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: While today (Aug. 23rd) was Lewis’s father’s birthday it is also the date (in 1908) that his mother (Flora) …
(2020CCSLQ-6) 2020 Confirming C.S. Lewis Quotes – Episode 6
posted 8/22/2020 INTRODUCTION This is the 6th article in a series devoted to clarifying whether or not C.S. Lewis wrote something you’ve seen quoted in a book and/or shared on social media. Each post examines two quotations. The first quote is something I became aware of since my book, The Misquotable C.S. Lewis came out …
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CSL Daily 08/22/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Boasts:) “One of the great, achievements of the last hundred years has been to deaden the human conscience on [gluttony], so that by now you will hardly find a sermon preached or a conscience troubled about it.” The Screwtape Letters XVII (Published in The Guardian on 8/22/1941) – – – FACT …
CSL Daily 08/21/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.” That Hideous Strength (Published 8/16/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “The Day with a White Mark,” a poem by Lewis was published in the August 17, 1949 issue …