QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later. He may break his promise to you, but if you try breaking one to him he will be complaining ‘It’s not …
CSL Daily 06/27/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “You can’t get second things by putting them first; you can get second things only by putting first things first.” First and Second Things (Published in Time and Tide on 6/27/1942) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The first paperback edition of The Magician’s Nephew came out on June 27, 1963 (first published May …
CSL Daily 06/26/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I think we may except [accept] it as a rule that whenever a person’s religious conversation dwells chiefly, or even frequently, on the faults of other people’s religions, he is in a bad condition.” Letter to Mary Van Deusen 6/26/1952 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – …
CSL Daily 04/22/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.” Hamlet: The Prince or the Poem? (Lecture given on April 22, 1942 for the British Academy in London) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Hamlet: The Prince or the Poem?” is the Annual …
CSL Daily 04/07/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I gave these talks, not because I am anyone in particular, but because I was asked to do so.” Preface to Broadcast Talks (Written on 4/6/1942) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Another edition (a paperback) of A Grief Observed was published on April 7, 1966. It was first published in 1961. – …
CSL Daily 02/17/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Christian…does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.” The Practical Conclusion (BBC talk given on 2/15/1942) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Cosmic Trilogy (a collection of all three Sci-Fi books by Lewis) was …
CSL Daily 02/15/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We have to take reality as it comes to us: there is no good jabbering about what it ought to be like or what we should have expected it to be like.” The Practical Conclusion (BBC talk given on 2/15/1942) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The final radio talk from the …
CSL Daily 02/09/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them.” Preface to The Screwtape Letters (Published 2/9/1942) – – – FACT OF THE …
CSL Daily 02/08/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The central Christian belief is that Christ’s death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.” The Perfect Penitent (Given as a talk on the BBC on 2/8/1942) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The fourth talk from the second BBC series was given on …
CSL Daily 02/06/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.” The Shocking Alternative (Given as a talk on the BBC on 2/1/1942) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Magician’s Nephew took Lewis the longest to …