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 in Twentieth Century) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Christian Apologetics was a talk Lewis gave sometime around Easter 1945 to an Anglican church group; now found in God …
CSL Daily 03/30/20
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 on 3/28/1960) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On March 7, 1945 Lewis wrote a letter to Mr. McClain turning down an offer for a speaking …
CSL Daily 03/11/20
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 Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XVII (Published in The Guardian on 3/2/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On March 11, 1936, Lewis wrote to Charles …
CSL Daily 03/09/20
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 Christianity (published in The Listener 3/9/44) – – – 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 …
CSL Daily 02/21/20
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 2/21/1945 in The Coventry Evening Telegraph, it was reprinted as Two Lectures in God in the Dock) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On February 21, 1945 …
CSL Daily 02/11/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “To find that one’s emotions do not ‘come to heel’ and line up as stable sentiments in permanent conformity with one’s convictions is simply the facts of being a fallen, and still imperfectly redeemed, man.” Letter to Michael Edwardson 2/11/1960 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – …
CSL Daily 02/10/20
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 Weight of Glory) – – – 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 …
CSL Daily 02/02/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it already.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XIII (Published in The Guardian on 2/2/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The (often misunderstood) debate between C.S. Lewis and Anscombe …
CSL Daily 01/19/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Ye cannot fully understand the relations of choice and Time till you are beyond both.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XI (Published in The Guardian on 1/19/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The eleventh installment of The Great Divorce was published on January 19, 1945; it covered the first quarter …
CSL Daily 01/12/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Could you, only for a moment, fix your mind on something not yourself?” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce X (Published in The Guardian on 1/12/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The tenth installment of The Great Divorce was published on January 12, 1945; it covered all of chapter eight. – …