FACT OF THE DAY: Narrative Poems was released on Oct. 27, 1969. It included the entire contents of Dymer, Lewis’s second poetry book. – – – 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 …
CSL Daily 10/18/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The Problem of Pain, Lewis’s first apologetic book was published on Oct. 18, 1940. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Evil comes from the abuse of free will.” The Problem of Pain (Published 10/18/1940) Learn More Details about The Misquotable C.S. Lewis
CSL Daily 08/17/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The essay now known as “The Necessity of Chivalry” was first published on August 17, 1940 in Time and Tide. Listen to an essay chat about this shorter work from my All About Jack podcast. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There is still life in the tradition which the Middle …
CSL Daily 06/02/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “Membership,” a talk by Lewis given four months earlier, was published in the June, 1945 issue of Sobornost. – – – 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 …
CSL Daily 04/16/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis preached “The Grand Miracle” on April 15, 1945 at St. Jude on the Hill Church in London. Now found in God in the Dock. – – – 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 …
CSL Daily 03/15/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “Dangers of National Repentance” is an essay by Lewis published March 15, 1940 in The Guardian. – – – 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)
CSL Daily 03/06/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “Christianity and Culture” appeared in March, 1940 issue of Theology, but wrote more on the topic in the June and December issues. – – – 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 …
CSL Daily 10/27/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Narrative Poems was released on Oct. 27, 1969. It included the entire contents of Dymer, Lewis’s second poetry book. – – – 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 …
CSL Daily 10/18/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The Problem of Pain, Lewis’s first apologetic book was published on Oct. 18, 1940. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Evil comes from the abuse of free will.” The Problem of Pain (Published 10/18/1940)
CSL Daily 8/17/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The essay now known as “The Necessity of Chivalry” was first published on August 17, 1940 in Time and Tide. – – – 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 …