FACT OF THE DAY: “Blimpophobia” is an article written by Lewis that was published on September 9, 1944 in Time and Tide. It’s best available now in the Present Concerns collection of essays. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Aslan, speaking to Aravis] “The scratches on your back, tear for tear, throb for throb, blood for blood, …
CSL Daily 09/06/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The Horse and His Boy was published on September 6, 1954. It was the fifth published book. – – – 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. …
CSL Daily 08/14/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Voyage to Venus by Lewis was published on August 14, 1953. It is the exact 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, Volume III) Learn …
CSL Daily 08/02/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “On the Death of Charles Williams” (“To Charles Williams” in Poems) was first published in the August, 1945 issue of Britain Today. – – – 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 …
CSL Daily 07/31/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The Business of Heaven, published in July 1984 in the US was the first book of selections from Lewis in a daily format. – – – 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 …
CSL Daily 06/11/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Science-Fiction Cradlesong is a revised poem by Lewis published on June 11, 1954 under a different title in The Times Literary Supplement. – – – 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 …
CSL Daily 06/04/18
FACT OF THE DAY: On June 4, 1954 Lewis accepted the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University. – – – 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 …
CSL Daily 02/05/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “The Man Born Blind” was published on February 4, 1977 in Church Times. But a different version was later discovered called “Light.” Hear a podcast interview with Dr. Charlie Starr about that version. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I fancy we are all too ready, once we are converted ourselves, …
CSL Daily 12/05/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “Xmas and Christmas: A Lost Chapter from Herodotus” is a satirical piece by Lewis published in the December 4, 1954 issue of Time and Tide. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Unless there is something about which the author is never ironical, there can be no true irony in the work.” …
CSL Daily 11/29/17
FACT OF THE DAY: On Nov. 29, 1898 Lewis was born and in 1954 he gave his inaugural lecture for Cambridge University on his birthday. It was called “De Descriptione Temporum.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I think no class of men are less enslaved to the past than historians. The unhistorical are …