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 …
CSL Daily 10/05/19
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 10/04/19
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 10/03/19
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 10/02/19
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 …
CSL Daily 10/01/19
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 09/30/19
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 09/29/19
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 09/28/19
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 09/27/19
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 …