QUOTE OF THE DAY: [A Warning to Wormwood]: “You will soon find that the justice of Hell is purely realistic, and concerned only with results. Bring us back food, or be food yourself.” The Screwtape Letters – XXX (First published in The Guardian on 11/21/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Screwtape Letters – XXX was …
CSL Daily 11/14/18
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Our research department has not yet discovered (though success is hourly expected) how to produce any virtue. This is a serious handicap. To be greatly and effectively wicked a man needs some virtue.” The Screwtape Letters – XXIX (First published in The Guardian on 11/14/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The …
CSL Daily 11/13/18
QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Proclaims:) “Prosperity knits a man to the World. He feels that he is ‘finding his place in it,’ while really it is finding its place in him.” The Screwtape Letters – XXVIII (First published in The Guardian on 11/7/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Although previously released in 1991, All My Road …
CSL Daily 11/04/18
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The load, or weight, or burden of my neighbor’s glory should be laid daily on my back, a load so heavy that only humility can carry it, and the backs of the proud will be broken.” The Weight of Glory (Published in November, 1941 issue of Theology) – – – FACT OF …
CSL Daily 10/31/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The 27th Screwtape Letter was published on Oct. 31, 1941 in The Guardian. Its subtitle was “The Historical Point of View.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Admits:) “Anything, even a sin, which has the total effect of moving him close up to the Enemy [i.e. God], makes against us …
CSL Daily 10/24/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The 26th Screwtape Letter was published on Oct. 24, 1941 in The Guardian. The subtitle was “The Generous Conflict Illusion.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape Notes:] “Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years later into domestic hatred.” The Screwtape Letters – XXVI – …
CSL Daily 10/17/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The 25th Screwtape Letter was published on October 17, 1941 in The Guardian. Its subtitle was “The Enemy Loves Platitudes.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape Complains:] “The real trouble about the set your patient is living in is that it is merely Christian. They all have individual interests, of course, …
CSL Daily 10/10/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The 24th letter from Screwtape was published on Oct. 10, 1941 in The Guardian. The theme was Spiritual Pride. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape Laments:] “If you try to make him explicitly and professedly proud of being a Christian, you will probably fail; the Enemy’s [God’s] warnings are too well …
CSL Daily 10/08/18
FACT OF THE DAY: A Preface to ‘Paradise Lost’ was published Oct. 8, in 1942. Lewis adapted it from his 1941 Ballard Matthews Lectures. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.” A Preface to ‘Paradise Lost’ (Published 10/8/1942) Learn More Details …
CSL Daily 10/03/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The 23rd letter from Screwtape was published on Oct. 3, 1941 in The Guardian. It was the first one with a subtitle, which was “The Historical Jesus.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Admits:) “The earliest converts were converted by a single historical fact (the Resurrection) and a single theological …