FACT OF THE DAY: While serving in WWI Lewis was wounded by a British shell on April 15, 1918 during the Battle of Arras. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Christian story is precisely the story of one grand miracle, the Christian assertion being that what is beyond all space and time, what …
CSL Daily 04/13/18
FACT OF THE DAY: 23rd & final installment of what eventually became part of The Great Divorce was published on April 13, 1945 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Only the Greatest of all can make Himself small enough to enter Hell. For the higher a thing is, the lower it can descend.” Who …
CSL Daily 04/06/18
FACT OF THE DAY: 22nd installment of what eventually became part of The Great Divorce was published April 6, 1945 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it: or else for ever and ever the …
CSL Daily 04/04/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The Laws of Nature by Lewis was published on April 4, 1945 in The Coventry Evening Telegraph. It’s now found in God in the Dock. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The laws of Nature explain everything except the source of events.” The Laws of Nature (Published April 4, 1945 in The Coventry Evening Telegraph)
CSL Daily 04/03/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Christian Apologetics was a talk Lewis gave sometime around Easter 1945 to an Anglican church group; now found in God in the Dock. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Those who read poetry to improve their minds will never improve their minds by reading poetry.” Lilies That Fester (Published April, 1955 …
CSL Daily 03/30/18
FACT OF THE DAY: On March 7, 1945 Lewis wrote a letter to Mr. McClain turning down an offer for a speaking tour in America. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Friendship is unnecessary…it has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” The Four Loves (Published …
CSL Daily 03/11/18
FACT OF THE DAY: On March 11, 1936 Lewis wrote to Charles Williams for the first time; it became the start of a close friendship. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.” Who …
CSL Daily 03/09/18
FACT OF THE DAY: 18th installment of the eventual book The Great Divorce was published in The Guardian on March 9, 1945. It was the first half of Ch. 12. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is no use to say `Lord, Lord’, if we do not do what Christ tells us.” Mr C. S. Lewis on …
CSL Daily 02/21/18
FACT OF THE DAY: On February 21, 1945 “Who Was Right—Dream Lecturer or Real Lecturer?” was published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Is it not equally reasonable to look outside Nature for the real Originator of the natural order?” Who Was Right—Dream Lecturer or Real Lecturer? (First published on …
CSL Daily 02/10/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The World’s Last Night collection of essays book was first published on February 10, 1960. Lewis also gave a talk now known as “Membership” today in 1945. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together.” Membership (Talk given on 2/10/1945; now found in The …