QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We are taught from childhood to notice how the perfect oak grows from the acorn and to forget that the acorn itself was dropped by a perfect oak.” Is Theology Poetry? (Talk given on 11/6/1944 to Socratic Club) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Is Theology Poetry?” was a paper …
CSL Daily 10/09/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world.” Nice People or New Men (Chapter 10 of Beyond Personality; published 10/9/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Beyond Personality: The Christian Idea of God was published on Oct. 9, 1944; from the …
CSL Daily 10/06/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There is thus a distinction not only between thought and imagination in general, but even between thought and those images which the thinker (falsely) believes to be true.” Horrid Red Things (Published in Church of England Newspaper on 10/6/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Horrid Red Things” was published on …
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 09/11/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Aslan, speaking to Aravis] “The scratches on your back, tear for tear, throb for throb, blood for blood, were equal to the stripes laid on the back of your stepmother’s slave because of the drugged sleep you cast upon her. You needed to know what it felt like.” The Horse …
CSL Daily 07/28/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “In my waking hours I would never [approve some actions]. But the dreaming mind is regrettably immoral.” A Dream (Published in The Spectator on 7/28/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The lighthearted essay “A Dream” was first published on July 28, 1944 in The Spectator. It’s available in Present Concerns. – …
CSL Daily 06/12/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “…Good images of what we really desire…the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.” The Weight of Glory (Sermon preached on 6/8/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: An expanded …
CSL Daily 05/29/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[God] made His own plan or plot of history such that it admits a certain amount of free play and can be modified in response to our prayers.” Work and Prayer (Published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph on 5/28/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Transposition is a sermon Lewis preached on …
CSL Daily 04/30/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The demand for equality has two sources; one of them is among the noblest, the other is the basest, of human emotions. The noble source is the desire for fair play. But the other source is the hatred of superiority.” Democratic Education (First published in the Notes on the Way …
CSL Daily 04/28/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The more a man was in the Devil’s power, the less he would be aware of it, on the principle that a man is still fairly sober as long as he knows he’s drunk.” Answers to Questions on Christianity (Talk given on April 18th or 19th in 1944 at the Electric and …