QUOTE OF THE DAY: “In praying for people one dislikes I find it helpful to remember that one is joining in His prayer for them.” Letter to Mary Van Deusen (from The Collected Letters Of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3 on 1/5/1951) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On January 5, 1945 the ninth installment of (the eventual) The Great Divorce (chapter …
CSL Daily 01/03/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If there were anything outside Nature, and if it interfered – then the events which the scientist expected wouldn’t follow. That would be what we call a miracle.” Religion and Science (Published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph on 1/3/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The essay “Religion and Science” was published …
CSL Daily 12/28/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “In a rational world, things would be made because they were wanted; in the actual world, wants have to be created in order that people may receive money for making the things.” Good Work and Good Works (Published in Good Work in Christmas, 1959 issue) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “On …
CSL Daily 12/11/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.” Foreword to Joy Davidman’s Smoke on the Mountain (Quoted in A Mind Awake, published 12/3/69 in US) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Scraps” is a group of brief thoughts by Lewis that was published in the December, 1945 issue of St …
CSL Daily 12/09/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “To avoid a man’s society because he is poor or ugly or stupid may be bad; but to avoid it because he is wicked—with the all but inevitable implication that you are less wicked (at least in some respect)—is dangerous and disgusting.” After Priggery – What? (Published in The Spectator on 12/7/1945) – …
CSL Daily 09/21/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The greed to be loved is a fearful thing. Some of those who say (and almost with pride) that they live only for love come, at last, to live in incessant resentment.” The Sermon and the Lunch (Published 9/21/1945 in Church of England Newspaper) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: …
CSL Daily 09/02/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If nothing, or nothing we recognise comes through, we imagine [God] has let us down and reject Him, perhaps at the very moment when help was on its way. . .” Letter to Mrs. Lockley on 9/2/1949 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II) – – – FACT OF …
CSL Daily 08/29/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Do you place yourself in the obedience,’ said the Director, ‘in obedience to Maleldil?’ ‘Sir,’ said Jane, ‘I know nothing of Maleldil. But I place myself in obedience to you.’ ‘It is enough for the present,’ said the Director. ‘This is the courtesy of Deep Heaven: that when you mean …
CSL Daily 08/26/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “In fighting those who serve devils one always has this on one’s side; their Masters hate them as much as they hate us.” That Hideous Strength (Published 8/16/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s father, Albert, was notorious for not liking his routine changed; this quality negatively affected …
CSL Daily 08/23/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Everyone begins as a child by liking Weather. You learn the art of disliking it as you grow up.” That Hideous Strength (Published 8/16/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: While today (Aug. 23rd) was Lewis’s father’s birthday it is also the date (in 1908) that his mother (Flora) …