QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Complains:) “Everything has to be twisted before it’s any use to us [devils].” The Screwtape Letters – XXII (First published in The Guardian on 9/26/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The 22nd Screwtape letter was published on September 26, 1941 in The Guardian (before being release in 1942 as a single book). It’s …
CSL Daily 09/25/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Observes:) “Men are not angered by mere misfortune but by misfortune conceived as injury.” The Screwtape Letters – XXI (First published in The Guardian on 9/19/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On September 25, 1929 Lewis’ father (Albert) died. His financial support was vital to Lewis getting his degrees …
CSL Daily 09/22/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The most important sense of a word is not always the most useful. What is the good of deepening a word’s connotation if you deprive the word of all practicable denotation?” The Death of Words (Published 9/22/1944 in The Spectator) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On September 22, 1944 …
CSL Daily 09/17/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our philosophy [belief system], not our whole philosophy on a feeling.” Religion: Reality or Substitute? (Published in September-October, 1941 issue of World Dominion) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe began being dramatized …
CSL Daily 09/12/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape Boasts:] “Our best weapon—the belief of ignorant humans, that there is no hope of getting rid of us except by yielding [to temptation].” The Screwtape Letters – XX (First published in The Guardian on 9/12/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The 20th letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian on …
CSL Daily 08/30/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Reveals:) “The whole philosophy of Hell rests on recognition of the axiom that one thing is not another thing, and, specially, that one self is not another self. My good is my good and your good is yours. What one gains another loses.” The Screwtape Letters XVIII (Published in The …
CSL Daily 08/27/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.” 4th BBC Broadcast (Given on 8/27/1941; Then known as What Can We Do About It) – – – FACT OF THE …
CSL Daily 08/25/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I find that I do not exist on my own, that I am under a law; that somebody or something wants me to behave in a certain way.” 3rd BBC Broadcast (Given on 8/20/1941; Then known as Materialism or Religion) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “The Trouble with …
CSL Daily 08/20/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If there was a controlling power outside the universe, it could not show itself to us as one of the facts inside the universe – no more than the architect of a house could actually be a wall or staircase or fireplace in that house.” 3rd BBC Broadcast (Given on …
CSL Daily 08/15/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Advises:) “Surely you know that if a man can’t be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that ‘suits’ him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches.” The Screwtape Letters XVI (Published in The Guardian on 8/15/1941) …