FACT OF THE DAY: Letters to an American Lady was first released on December 19, 1967 and at the time the name of the lady wasn’t revealed. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing … it is irresistible. If …
CSL Daily 11/23
FACT OF THE DAY: “March for Drum, Trumpet, and Twenty-one Giants” is a Lewis poem first published in Punch in their Nov. 4, 1953 issue. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Whatever men expect they soon come to think they have a right to: the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on …
CSL Daily 10/7
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis wrote the preface to his scholarly work English Literature in the Sixteenth Century on this day (Oct. 7) in 1953. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Good books which are remote from modern sympathy need to be treated at greater length than good books which everyone already knows and loves.” …
CSL Daily 9/7
FACT OF THE DAY: The Silver Chair was first published in the UK on this date (Sept. 7) in 1953. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Very likely, what with enemies, and mountains, and rivers to cross, and losing our way, and next to nothing to eat, and sore feet, we’ll hardly notice the …
CSL Daily 8/14
FACT OF THE DAY: Voyage to Venus by Lewis was published today (Aug. 14) in 1953. It is the same book as Perelandra from 1943. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We must use the talent we have, not the talents we haven’t.” Letter to Cynthia Donnelly 8/14/1954 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, …
CSL Daily 8/10
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s letter to the editor of Church Times on “The Holy Name” was published today (Aug. 10) in 1951. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I think almost all the crimes which Christians have perpetrated against each other arise from this, that religion is confused with politics.” Letter to Don …
CSL Daily 8/03
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis resigned from Cambridge this month in 1963 where he held the chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I take it as a first principle that we must not interpret any one part of Scripture so that it contradicts other parts, and specially we …
CSL Daily 8/01
FACT OF THE DAY: Today (8/1) in 1941 the 14th letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian before being in the book The Screwtape Letters. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing … it is irresistible. If even …
CSL Daily 6/3
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis wrote to Hila Newman, an eleven-year-old, on this date (6/3) in 1953 giving her clues about “Aslan’s other name” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “After all, almost the main work of life is to come out of our selves, out of the little, dark prison we are all …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 11/23
FACT OF THE DAY: “March for Drum, Trumpet, and Twenty-one Giants” is a Lewis poem first published in Punch in their Nov. 4, 1953 issue. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: Whatever men expect they soon come to think they have a right to: the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on …