QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him.” (Broadcast on BBC on 10/4/1942; Chapter four (Morality and Psychoanalysis) from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On Oct. 5, 1954 The Horse and His Boy …
CSL Daily 09/18/20
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 …
CSL Daily 09/16/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The rule of decorum exists to avoid clashes or shocks to organized sensibility: but it was an early discovery that an occasional defiance of the rule, resulting in a shock, can give pleasure; a pleasure rich in tragic or comic possibilities. Indeed one of the purposes for which the rule exists …
CSL Daily 09/11/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Aslan, speaking to Aravis] “The scratches on your back, tear for tear, throb for throb, blood for blood, were equal to the stripes laid on the back of your stepmother’s slave because of the drugged sleep you cast upon her. You needed to know what it felt like.” The Horse …
CSL Daily 09/06/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We’re free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you’re running away to Narnia, you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn’t your horse any longer. One might just as well say you’re her human.” The Horse and His Boy (Published 9/6/54) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The …
CSL Daily 08/02/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “God’s presence is not the same as the feeling of God’s presence and He may be doing most for us when we think He is doing least.” Letter to Mary Margaret McCaslin 8/2/1954 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “On the …
CSL Daily 07/31/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Avoid introspection in prayer—I mean not to watch one’s own mind to see if it is in the right frame, but always to turn the attention outwards to God.” Letter to Dr. F. Morgan Roberts 7/31/1954 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – FACT OF …
CSL Daily 06/11/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If we are made for heaven, the desire for our proper place will be already in us, but not yet attached to the true object, and will even appear as the rival of that object.” The Weight of Glory (Sermon preached on 6/8/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: …
CSL Daily 06/04/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Advises Wormwood:) “Do not allow any temporary excitement to distract you from the real business of undermining faith and preventing the formation of virtues.” The Screwtape Letters V (Published in The Guardian on 5/30/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On June 4, 1954 Lewis accepted the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance …
CSL Daily 02/05/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I fancy we are all too ready, once we are converted ourselves, to assume that God will deal with everyone exactly as He does with us. But He is no mass-producer and treats no two quite alike.” Letter to Mrs. Jessup on 2/5/1954 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) …