QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him.” (Broadcast on BBC on 10/4/1942; Chapter four (Morality and Psychoanalysis) from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On Oct. 5, 1954 The Horse and His Boy …
CSL Daily 10/04/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When a man makes a moral choice two things are involved. One is the act of choosing. The other is the various feelings, impulses and so on which his psychological outfit presents him with, and which are the raw material of his choice.” Morality and Psychoanalysis (Broadcast on BBC on …
CSL Daily 09/30/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “What I want is a straight fight between the new morality and that of the law.” Sex in Literature (Published 9/30/1962 in The Sunday Telegraph) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On Sept. 30, 1962 “Sex in Literature” was published in The Sunday Telegraph. – – – PURCHASE The Misquotable C.S. Lewis …
CSL Daily 09/28/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[Christianity] was never intended to replace or supersede the ordinary human arts and sciences: it is rather a director which will set them all to the right jobs, and a source of energy which will give them all new life, if only they will put themselves at its disposal.” Social …
CSL Daily 07/13/19
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 06/27/19
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 06/26/19
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 04/22/19
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 04/07/19
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 02/17/19
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 released …