QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The laws of nature, as applied to stones or trees, may only mean ‘what Nature, in fact, does’. But if you turn to the Law of Human Nature, the Law of Decent Behaviour, it is a different matter. That law certainly does not mean ‘what human beings, in fact, do’; …
CSL Daily 08/11/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape Admits:] “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 and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.” The Screwtape Letters XV (Published in The Guardian on 8/8/1941) – – – …
CSL Daily 08/08/20
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 itself, and to that point of time which they call the Present.” The Screwtape Letters XV (Published in The Guardian on 8/8/1941) – – – …
CSL Daily 08/06/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Quarreling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. And there would be no sense in trying to do that unless you and he had some sort of agreement as to what Right and Wrong are.” The Law of Human Nature (First heard on the BBC …
CSL Daily 08/01/20
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 cent of the world’s population had it, would not the whole world be converted and happy before a year’s end?” Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne 8/1/1953 (Published in The …
CSL Daily 07/26/20
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 is something quite trivial.” The Screwtape Letters XIII (Published in The Guardian on 7/25/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The U.S. Paperback editions of Surprised By Joy and Till …
CSL Daily 07/25/20
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 little vermin, and sets an absurd value on the distinctiveness of every one of them.” The Screwtape Letters XIII (Published in The Guardian on 7/25/1941) – – …
CSL Daily 07/18/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Proudly States:) “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 effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing.” The …
CSL Daily 07/11/20
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) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The eleventh letter from Screwtape was published on July 11, 1941 in The Guardian. Better understand The Screwtape …
CSL Daily 07/08/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Our divisions should never be discussed except in the presence of those who have already come to believe that there is one God and that Jesus Christ is His only Son.” Mere Christianity (Published in 7/7/1952) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis first used the term “Mere Christianity” in The …