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 11/14/20
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 11/13/20
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 11/04/20
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 10/31/20
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 in the long run.” The Screwtape Letters – XXVII – The Historical Point of View (First published in The Guardian on 10/31/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: …
CSL Daily 10/24/20
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 – The Generous Conflict Illusion (First published in The Guardian on 10/24/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The 26th Screwtape Letter was published on Oct. 24, …
CSL Daily 10/17/20
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, but the bond remains mere Christianity.” The Screwtape Letters – XXV – The Enemy Loves Platitudes (First published in The Guardian on 10/17/1941) – – – FACT OF …
CSL Daily 10/10/20
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 known.” The Screwtape Letters – XXIV – Spiritual Pride (First published in The Guardian on 10/10/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The 24th letter from …
CSL Daily 10/08/20
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) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: A Preface to ‘Paradise Lost’ was published Oct. 8, 1942. Lewis adapted it from his 1941 Ballard Matthews Lectures. – …
CSL Daily 10/03/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Admits:) “The earliest converts were converted by a single historical fact (the Resurrection) and a single theological doctrine (the Redemption) operating on a sense of sin which they already had.” The Screwtape Letters – XXIII – The Historical Jesus (First published in The Guardian on 10/3/1941) – – – FACT OF THE …