QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape advises:] “You must therefore conceal from the patient the true end of Humility. Let him think of it not as self-forgetfulness but as a certain kind of opinion (namely, a low opinion) of his own talents and character.” The Screwtape Letters XIV (Published in The Guardian on 8/1/1941) – – – FACT …
CSL Daily 07/21/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The feeling of being, or not being, forgiven and loved, is not what matters. One must come down to brass tacks. If there is a particular sin on your conscience, repent and confess it. If there isn’t, tell the despondent devil not to be silly.” Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne …
CSL Daily 07/01/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When natural things look most divine, the demoniac is just round the corner.” The Four Loves (U.S. edition first published 7/27/1960) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis wrote a letter to the editor on July 1, 1949 to Church Times. It’s in God in the Dock as “The Church’s Liturgy.” – …
CSL Daily 06/24/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The simple physical pains and (still more) the pleasures can’t be expressed in language. I labour the point lest the devil should hereafter try to make you believe that what was wordless was therefore vague and nebulous. But in reality it is just the clearest, the most concrete, and the most …
CSL Daily 05/28/20
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 think one has a free hand.” Letter to Rhona Bodle 5/28/1949 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis wrote to Sister …
CSL Daily 05/13/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Christianity…is precisely the story of a great Miracle. A naturalistic Christianity leaves out all that is specifically Christian.” Miracles: A Preliminary Study (Published on 5/12/1947) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Adam at Night is a poem published in Punch on May 11, 1949 then revised and re-titled as The …
CSL Daily 04/05/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “All our offerings, whether of music or martyrdom, are like the intrinsically worthless present of a child, which a father values indeed, but values only for the intention.” On Church Music (Published in the April 1949 issue of English Church Music) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “On Church Music” …
CSL Daily 03/10/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Nothing, not even the best and noblest, can go on as it now is. Nothing, not even what is lowest and most bestial, will not be raised again if it submits to death.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XVIII (Published in The Guardian on 3/9/1945) – – – FACT OF THE …
CSL Daily 10/20/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Mrs. Beaver to Susan:) “If there’s anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they’re either braver than most, or else just silly.” The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Published 10/16/1950) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On October 20, 1949 the last reported Thursday Inklings …
CSL Daily 09/14/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The educated man habitually, almost without noticing it, sees the present as something that grows out of a long perspective of centuries.” “God in the Dock” (First published as “Difficulties in Presenting the Christian Faith to Modern Unbelievers” in September 1948 issue of Lumen Vitae) – – – FACT OF THE …