QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Christian story is precisely the story of one grand miracle, the Christian assertion being that what is beyond all space and time, what is uncreated, eternal, came into nature, into human nature, descended into His own universe, and rose again, bringing nature up with Him.” The Grand Miracle (Sermon …
CSL Daily 04/14/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “But let us thank God that we are still very far from travel to other worlds. I have wondered before now whether the vast astronomical distances may not be God’s quarantine precautions. They prevent the spiritual infection of a fallen species from spreading.” Religion and Rocketry (initially titled Will We Lose …
CSL Daily 04/13/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Only the Greatest of all can make Himself small enough to enter Hell. For the higher a thing is, the lower it can descend.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XXIII (Published in The Guardian on 4/13/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: 23rd & final installment of what eventually …
CSL Daily 04/12/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The more we get what we now call ‘ourselves’ out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become…our real selves are all waiting for us in Him.” The New Men (Initially a BBC broadcast from 4/4/44) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: …
[PODCAST] LWW – Book verses 2005 Movie, pt. 1
This is the first of a two-part podcast episode exploring how well the 2005 Hollywood version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe compares with the book that was published in 1950. My guests are Dr. Crystal Downing, co-Director of the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College and Dr. Charlie Starr who teach at …
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CSL Daily 04/11/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “To become new men means losing what we now call ‘ourselves’. Out of our selves, into Christ, we must go.” The New Men (Initially a BBC broadcast from 4/4/44) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Letters to Children was published on April 11, 1985, but its content can also be found …
CSL Daily 04/10/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[God] can’t be used as a road. If you’re approaching Him not as the goal but as a road, not as the end but as a means, you’re not really approaching Him at all.” A Grief Observed (Paperback edition published 4/7/1966) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Nearly ten years …
CSL Daily 04/09/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Those who stand outside all judgements of value cannot have any ground for preferring one of their own impulses to another except the emotional strength of that impulse.” The Abolition of Man (Published 4/8/1947 as the first U.S. edition) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On April 9, 1941 …
CSL Daily 04/08/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Who said I disliked women? I never liked or disliked any generalisation.” Letter to Margaret Fuller on 4/8/1948 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On April 8, 1947 the first U.S. edition (a hardback) of The Abolition of Man was published. – – – …
CSL Daily 04/07/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I gave these talks, not because I am anyone in particular, but because I was asked to do so.” Preface to Broadcast Talks (Written on 4/6/1942) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Another edition (a paperback) of A Grief Observed was published on April 7, 1966. It was first published in 1961. – …