QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The question ‘Who is in the right’ (in a given quarrel) is quite distinct from the question ‘Who is righteous?’— for the worse of two disputants may always be in the right on one particular issue.” Letter to Dom Bede Griffiths OSB on 4/16/1940 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, …
CSL Daily 03/15/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard.” Dangers of National Repentance (Published in The Guardian on 3/15/40) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Dangers of National Repentance” is an essay by Lewis published March 15, 1940, in The Guardian. – – – Have you seen my …
CSL Daily 03/06/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Once we have accepted an omniscient & providential God, the distinction we used to draw between the significant and the fortuitous must either break down or be restated in some v. much subtler form.” Letter to Sheldon Vanauken 3/6/1955 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – …
CSL Daily 10/27/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We want in fact not so much a father in Heaven as a grandfather in heaven – a senile benevolence who as they say ‘liked to see young people enjoying themselves.’” The Problem of Pain (Published 10/18/1940) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Narrative Poems was released on Oct. 27, 1969. …
CSL Daily 10/18/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Evil comes from the abuse of free will.” The Problem of Pain (Published 10/18/1940) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Problem of Pain, Lewis’s first apologetic book was published on Oct. 18, 1940. – – – PURCHASE The Misquotable C.S. Lewis
CSL Daily 08/17/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There is still life in the tradition which the Middle Ages inaugurated. But the maintenance of that life depends, in part, on knowing that the knightly character is art not nature—something that needs to be achieved, not something that can be relied upon to happen.” The Necessity of Chivalry (Published …
CSL Daily 06/02/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The real difficulty is, isn’t it, to adapt ones steady beliefs about tribulation to this particular tribulation; for the particular, when it arrives, always seems so peculiarly intolerable.” Letter to Owen Barfield 6/2/1940 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Membership,” …
CSL Daily 04/16/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The question ‘Who is in the right’ (in a given quarrel) is quite distinct from the question ‘Who is righteous?’— for the worse of two disputants may always be in the right on one particular issue.” Letter to Dom Bede Griffiths OSB on 4/16/1940 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, …
CSL Daily 03/15/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard.” Dangers of National Repentance (Published in The Guardian on 3/15/40) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Dangers of National Repentance” is an essay by Lewis published March 15, 1940 in The Guardian. – – – PURCHASE The Misquotable C.S. Lewis
CSL Daily 03/06/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Once we have accepted an omniscient & providential God, the distinction we used to draw between the significant and the fortuitous must either break down or be restated in some v. much subtler form.” Letter to Sheldon Vanauken 3/6/1955 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – FACT OF …