FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis wrote to Sister Penelope on May 28, 1945 stating that his book on Miracles was already finished (it came out May 12, 1947). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I quite agree with you about not using one’s job for propaganda: but once the pupil raises the question I …
CSL Daily 5/27/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “Work and Prayer” is an essay published this month in the May 28, 1945 edition of The Coventry Evening Telegraph weekly paper. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men – things at …
CSL Daily 5/24/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s obituary of Charles Walter Stansby Williams (1886-1945) was published in The Oxford Magazine on May 24, 1945). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Advises:) “Teach them to estimate the value of each prayer by their success in producing the desired feeling.” The Screwtape Letters IV (Published in The Guardian on 5/23/1941) …
CSL Daily 5/10/17
FACT OF THE DAY: On May 9, 1941 the second Screwtape Letter premiered in The Guardian before being available in the famous book. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “You don’t see Nature till you believe in the Supernatural: don’t get the full, hot, salty tang of her except by contrast with the pure water …
CSL Daily 4/25/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “The Grand Miracle,” preached earlier this month in 1945 was printed in the April 27, 1945 issue of The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If I remember rightly, St. Augustine raised a question about the theological position of satyrs, monopods, and other semi-human creatures. He decided it could …
CSL Daily 4/16/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis preached “The Grand Miracle” on April 15, 1945 at St. Jude on the Hill Church in London. Now found in God in the Dock. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The question ‘Who is in the right’ (in a given quarrel) is quite distinct from the question ‘Who is righteous?’— …
CSL Daily 4/15/17
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 4/13/17
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 …
CSL Daily 4/06/17
FACT OF THE DAY: 22nd installment of what eventually became part of The Great Divorce was published today (4/6) in The Guardian in 1945. – – – 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 …
CSL Daily 4/04/17
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 …