QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape on the Dangers of War:) “One of our best weapons, contented worldliness, is rendered useless. In wartime not even a human can believe he is going to live forever.” The Screwtape Letters V (Published in The Guardian on 5/30/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The fifth Screwtape letter was …
CSL Daily 05/16/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Keep his mind off the most elementary duties by directing it to the most advanced and spiritual ones.” The Screwtape Letters III (Published in The Guardian on 5/16/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On May 16, 1941 the third letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian. – – – Have you …
CSL Daily 05/10/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “You don’t see Nature till you believe in the Supernatural: don’t get the full, hot, salty tang of her except by contrast with the pure water from beyond the world. Those who mistake Nature for the All are just those who can never realise her as a particular creature with …
CSL Daily 05/05/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: Screwtape’s observation of humans: “Thanks to processes which we set at work in them centuries ago, they find it all but impossible to believe in the unfamiliar while the familiar is before their eyes.” The Screwtape Letters I (Published in The Guardian on 5/2/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On May …
CSL Daily 05/01/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us: we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.” Letter to Father Peter Bide on 4/29/1959 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The first of The Screwtape …
CSL Daily 04/09/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Those who stand outside all judgements of value cannot have any ground for preferring one of their own impulses to another except the emotional strength of that impulse.” The Abolition of Man (Published 4/8/1947 as the first U.S. edition) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On April 9, 1941 …
CSL Daily 02/07/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If evil has the same kind of reality as good, the same autonomy and completeness, our allegiance to good becomes the arbitrarily chosen loyalty of a partisan.” Evil and God (Published in The Spectator on 2/7/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: In 1941 on February 7th “Evil and God” was published in The Spectator. In …
CSL Daily 01/10/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The danger of mistaking our merely natural, though perhaps legitimate, enthusiasms for holy zeal, is always great.” Meditation on the Third Commandment (Published in The Guardian on 1/10/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The January 10, 1941 issue of The Guardian included “Meditation on the Third Commandment” from Lewis. Hear a podcast “essay chat” on …
CSL Daily 11/28/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape bemoans the patient’s fate:] “He got through so easily! No gradual misgivings, no doctor’s sentence, no nursing home, no operating theatre, no false hopes of life; sheer, instantaneous liberation.” The Screwtape Letters – XXXI (First published in The Guardian on 11/28/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The final letter from …
CSL Daily 11/23/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Whatever men expect they soon come to think they have a right to: the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury.” The Screwtape Letters – XXX (First published in The Guardian on 11/21/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “March for …