QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The good things even of this world are far too good ever to be reached by imagination. Even the common orange, you know: no one could have imagined it before he tasted it. How much less Heaven.” Letter to Mrs. Johnson 8/7/1956 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) …
CSL Daily 08/06/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Quarreling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. And there would be no sense in trying to do that unless you and he had some sort of agreement as to what Right and Wrong are.” The Law of Human Nature (First heard on the BBC …
CSL Daily 08/05/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape advises:] “You must therefore conceal from the patient the true end of Humility. Let him think of it not as self-forgetfulness but as a certain kind of opinion (namely, a low opinion) of his own talents and character.” The Screwtape Letters XIV (Published in The Guardian on 8/1/1941) – – – FACT …
CSL Daily 08/04/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape advises:] “Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware of that he has them, but this is specially true of humility.” The Screwtape Letters XIV (Published in The Guardian on 8/1/1941) – – – FACT …
CSL Daily 08/03/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I take it as a first principle that we must not interpret any one part of Scripture so that it contradicts other parts, and specially we must not use an apostle’s teaching to contradict that of Our Lord.” Letter to Mrs. Emily McLay 8/3/1953 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, …
CSL Daily 08/02/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “God’s presence is not the same as the feeling of God’s presence and He may be doing most for us when we think He is doing least.” Letter to Mary Margaret McCaslin 8/2/1954 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “On the …
CSL Daily 08/01/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing … it is irresistible. If even ten per cent of the world’s population had it, would not the whole world be converted and happy before a year’s end?” Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne 8/1/1953 (Published in The …
CSL Daily 07/31/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Avoid introspection in prayer—I mean not to watch one’s own mind to see if it is in the right frame, but always to turn the attention outwards to God.” Letter to Dr. F. Morgan Roberts 7/31/1954 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – FACT OF …
CSL Daily 07/30/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We really don’t know much about loving until we’re in touch with love Himself.” The Anvil (BBC Radio Broadcast aired 7/22/1943) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Epitaph” is a poem published on July 30, 1948 in The Spectator. Revised and re-titled as “Epigrams and Epitaphs” in Poems. – – – …
CSL Daily 07/29/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We must, on pain of idiocy, deny from the very outset the idea that looking at is, by its own nature, intrinsically truer or better than looking along. One must look both along and at everything.” Meditation in a Toolshed (Published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph on 7/17/1945) – – – FACT …