QUOTE OF THE DAY: “God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself.” The Shocking Alternative (Given as a talk on the BBC on 2/1/1942) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s short story “The Shoddy Lands” was published in the February, 1956 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. It’s now available …
90 Seconds #2 – When The Screwtape Letters was Published (YouTube Show)
Here’s the second show from my new 90 second YouTube “show.” The purpose is to help people briefly learn about significant events in the life of C.S. Lewis. Note the text version of the show is below, WITH footnotes! The Screwtape Letters Published (February 9, 1942) Even though The Screwtape Letters were popular when first …
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CSL Daily 02/01/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “You can shut [Jesus] up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God.” The Shocking Alternative (Given as a talk on the BBC on 2/1/1942) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Known as “The …
CSL Daily 01/26/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself…as if the good Lord had nothing to do but exist!” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XII (Published in The Guardian on 1/26/1945) – – – FACT OF …
CSL Daily 01/18/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd.” The Invasion (Second Talk from BBC Broadcast on 1/18/1942) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Later known as “The Invasion,” Lewis’s second talk from his second BBC radio series was given on January 18, 1942. – – – PURCHASE The Misquotable …
CSL Daily 01/11/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in this world is a part of God.” What Christians Believe (First Talk from BBC Broadcast on 1/11/1942) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On January 11, 1942 Lewis …
CSL Daily 10/26/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.” Forgiveness (Broadcast on BBC on 10/18/1942; Chapter Seven from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Poems is a book collecting nearly all of Lewis’s shorter poems. It was released on Oct. 26, 1964. …
CSL Daily 10/25/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison…[pride] is the complete anti-God state of mind.” The Great Sin (Broadcast on BBC on 10/25/1942; Chapter Eight from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The sixth talk from the third BBC radio series …
CSL Daily 10/11/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Christian rule is, ‘Either marriage, with complete faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence.’ Now this is so difficult and so contrary to our instincts, that obviously either Christianity is wrong or our sexual instinct, as it now is, has gone wrong.” Sexual Morality (Broadcast on BBC on …
CSL Daily 10/08/19
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. – …