QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We really don’t know much about loving until we’re in touch with love Himself.” The Anvil (BBC Radio Broadcast aired 7/22/1943) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Epitaph” is a poem published on July 30, 1948 in The Spectator. Revised and re-titled as “Epigrams and Epitaphs” in Poems. – – – …
CSL Daily 06/23/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Admits:) “Prayers offered in the state of dryness are those which please Him (God) best.” The Screwtape Letters VIII (Published in The Guardian on 6/20/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s poem “Vitrea Circe” was published in Punch on June 23, 1948 and was revised and reprinted in Poems. – – – PURCHASE The Misquotable …
CSL Daily 06/22/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is not really you who are holding fast to Him but He to you: and He will bring you to wherever He wants.” Letter to Rhona Bodle 6/22/1948 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis showed the proofs for The Lion, …
CSL Daily 04/08/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Who said I disliked women? I never liked or disliked any generalisation.” Letter to Margaret Fuller on 4/8/1948 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On April 8, 1947 the first U.S. edition (a hardback) of The Abolition of Man was published. – – – …
CSL Daily 03/08/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The words ‘God is love’ have no real meaning unless God contains at least two Persons.” Good Infection (Initially a BBC broadcast from 3/7/44) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: In March 1948 Lewis began writing his autobiography Surprised by Joy, but it wasn’t published until 1955. – – – …
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 01/13/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Recently (although the outward condition of my life has not changed for the better) it has pleased God to pour into my soul great tranquillity – I may even say gaiety.” Letter to Don Giovanni Calabria (from Collected Letters, Volume 2 on 1/13/1948) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On January …
CSL Daily 11/19/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I saw how stories of this kind [fairy stories] could steal past a certain inhabitant which had paralysed much of my own religion in childhood.” Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What’s to Be Said (First published in The New York Times Book Review on 11/18/1956) – – – FACT OF THE …
CSL Daily 10/21/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,” said Aslan. “And that is both honor enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.” Prince Caspian (Published 10/15/1951) – – – FACT OF …
CSL Daily 09/18/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The limit of giving is to be the limit of our ability to give.” English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (Published 9/16/1954) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “The Landing” is a poem published in Punch on Sept. 15, 1948; a revised version is in Poems. – – – PURCHASE The Misquotable C.S. Lewis …