QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It was the light, the grass, the trees that were different; made of some different substance, so much solider than things in our country that men were ghosts by comparison.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce IV (Published in The Guardian on 12/1/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes …
CSL Daily 11/24/18
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “‘You mean the evening is really going to turn into a night in the end?’ ‘He nodded.’” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce III (First published in The Guardian on 11/24/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce III was published on Nov. 24, 1944 in The …
CSL Daily 11/17/18
QUOTE OF THE DAY: [About the grey town:] “That’s one of the disappointments. I thought you’d meet interesting historical characters. But you don’t: they’re too far away.” “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce II” (First published in The Guardian on 11/17/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce II” …
CSL Daily 11/06/18
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) – – – ACT OF THE DAY: “Is Theology Poetry?” was a paper …
CSL Daily 10/09/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Beyond Personality: The Christian Idea of God was published on Oct. 9, 1944; from the final series of talks on the BBC. – – – 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 …
CSL Daily 10/06/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “Horrid Red Things” was published on Oct. 6, 1944 in Church of England Newspaper. It was adapted in the book Miracles. – – – 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 …
CSL Daily 10/04/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “Morality and Psychoanalysis” is the title of what was originally the third talk Lewis gave on Oct. 4, 1942 from his third BBC series. – – – 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 …
CSL Daily 09/11/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “Blimpophobia” is an article written by Lewis that was published on September 9, 1944 in Time and Tide. It’s best available now in the Present Concerns collection of essays. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Aslan, speaking to Aravis] “The scratches on your back, tear for tear, throb for throb, blood for blood, …
CSL Daily 07/28/18
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. – – – 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) Learn More Details …
CSL Daily 06/12/18
FACT OF THE DAY: An expanded version of “Bulverism” by Lewis was printed in the June, 1944 issue of The Socratic Digest. – – – 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 …