QUOTE OF THE DAY: “An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man’s mind is open on these things, let his mouth at least be shut.” The Abolition of Man (2nd Edition Published 8/12/1946) …
CSL Daily 06/28/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Think of yourself just as a seed patiently wintering in the earth; waiting to come up a flower in the Gardener’s good time, up into the real world, the real waking.” Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne 6/28/1963 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – FACT OF …
CSL Daily 05/20/19
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis spoke on “Religion without Dogma?” on May 20, 1946 before the Oxford Socratic Club. An updated version is in God in the Dock. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[The] scientific method merely shows…that if miracles did occur, science, as science, could not prove, or disprove, their occurrence.” Religion without …
CSL Daily 03/31/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.” Miserable Offenders: An Interpretation of Prayer Book Language (Sermon Preached 3/31/1946) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis preached “Miserable Offenders: An Interpretation of Prayer Book Language” at …
CSL Daily 03/18/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Bible itself gives us one short prayer which is suitable for all who are struggling with the beliefs and doctrines. It is: ‘LORD I believe, help Thou my unbelief.’” Letter to Genia Goelz 3/18/1952 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On March …
CSL Daily 01/14/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.’” The Great Divorce (Published on 1/14/1946) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Great Divorce (complete book) was published on …
CSL Daily 01/09/19
Learn more about the 1st Annual C.S. Lewis Quotathon. FACT OF THE DAY: “The Birth of Language” is a poem by Lewis published January 9, 1946 in Punch (it uses planetary imagery). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “May God’s grace give you the necessary humility. Try not to think—much less, speak—of their sins. One’s own are a much …
CSL Daily 11/25/18
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “To convert one’s adult neighbour and one’s adolescent neighbour (just free from school) is the practical thing. . . . If you make the adults of today Christian, the children of tomorrow will receive a Christian education. What a society has, that, be sure, and nothing else, it will hand on …
CSL Daily 11/09/18
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The truth is that the whole criticism which turns on dates and periods, as if age-groups were the proper classification of readers, is confused and even vulgar.” Period Criticism (Published on 11/9/1946 as “Notes on the Way” column in Time and Tide) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Period Criticism” …
CSL Daily 10/28/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “Talking about Bicycles,” one of Lewis’s shorter works was published in the October, 1946 issue of Resistance. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.” The Great Sin (Broadcast on BBC on 10/25/1942; Chapter …