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 second …
CSL Daily 02/09/19
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 DAY: …
CSL Daily 02/08/19
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 February …
CSL Daily 02/06/19
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 write …
CSL Daily 02/03/19
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. – – – PURCHASE The …
CSL Daily 02/01/19
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 01/26/19
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 01/18/19
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 01/11/19
Learn more about the 1st Annual C.S. Lewis Quotathon. 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) – – …
CSL Daily 10/26/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Poems is a book collecting nearly all of Lewis’s shorter poems that was released on Oct. 26, 1964. – – – 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) Learn …