FACT OF THE DAY: A previously unpublished essay by Lewis was the lead title piece in Christian Reunion published on August 15, 1990. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “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 …
CSL Daily 8/13/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The second ever radio talk by Lewis was given on August 13, 1941. At the time it was called “Scientific Law and Moral Law” but is “THE REALITY OF THE LAW” in Mere Christianity. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The laws of nature, as applied to stones or trees, may …
CSL Daily 8/11/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “The Sailing of the Ark” was published on August 11, 1948 in Punch. Revised and re-titled “The Late Passenger” in Poems. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most completely temporal part of time-for the Past is frozen …
CSL Daily 8/08/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The 15th letter from Screwtape was published on August 8, 1941 in The Guardian. Themes include understanding Time. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The humans live in time but our Enemy [God] destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity …
CSL Daily 8/06/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “Common Decency,” the first BBC broadcast by Lewis was given on August 6, 1941. It is better known as “The Law of Human Nature” in Mere Christianity. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Quarreling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. And there would be no sense …
CSL Daily 8/01/17
FACT OF THE DAY: On August 1, 1941 the 14th letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian before being available in the book The Screwtape Letters. – – – 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 …
CSL Daily 7/26/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The U.S. Paperback editions of Surprised By Joy and Till We Have Faces came out on July 9th ten years apart (1970, 1980). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape Advises:] “I would make it a rule to eradicate from my patient any strong personal taste which is not actually a sin, even if it …
CSL Daily 7/25/17
FACT OF THE DAY: On July 25, 1941 the 13th letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian. Wormwood has failed again…second conversion. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape Admits:] “I know that the Enemy [God] also wants to detach men from themselves, but in a different way. Remember always, that he really likes the …
CSL Daily 7/18/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The twelfth letter from Screwtape was published on July 18, 1941 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The only thing that matters is the extent to which you separate the man from the Enemy [God]. It does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative …
CSL Daily 7/11/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The eleventh letter from Screwtape was published on July 11, 1941 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I don’t believe that good work is ever done in a hurry.” Letter to Arthur Greeves 7/11/1916 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume I)