QUOTE OF THE DAY: “What we practise, not (save at rare intervals) what we preach, is usually our great contribution to the conversion of others.” Letter to Mrs. Johnson 3/2/1955 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Sir Walter Scott” was a talk Lewis gave on …
CSL Daily 02/14/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Bereavement is not the truncation of married love but one of its regular phases—like the honeymoon. What we want is to live our marriage well and faithfully through that phase too. If it hurts (and it certainly will) we accept the pains as a necessary part of this phase.” A Grief …
CSL Daily 01/22/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Our relation to those who trusted us only after we were proved innocent in court cannot be the same as our relation to those who trusted us all through.” On Obstinacy In Belief (Published in Screwtape Proposes a Toast on 1/4/1965) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The poem “On Another …
CSL Daily 01/21/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.” The Weight of Glory (Published in Screwtape Proposes a Toast on 1/4/1965) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Prudery and Philology” was published on January 21, 1955 in The Spectator. …
CSL Daily 01/08/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The question is not whether we should bring God into our work or not. We certainly should and must…Each vocation has its peculiar dangers and peculiar rewards.” Letter to Sheldon Vanauken (from Collected Letters, Volume 3 on 1/8/1951) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On January 8, 1955 Lewis’s article …
CSL Daily 01/07/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.” The Abolition of Man (Published on 1/6/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis spent the first night in his new rooms at Magdalene College, Cambridge on January 7, 1955. – – – PURCHASE The Misquotable C.S. Lewis
CSL Daily 09/19/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Joy is not a substitute for sex; sex is very often a substitute for Joy. I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for Joy.” Surprised By Joy (Published 9/19/1955) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Surprised By Joy: The Shape of My Early Life by Lewis was published …
CSL Daily 04/03/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Those who read poetry to improve their minds will never improve their minds by reading poetry.” Lilies That Fester (Published April, 1955 in Twentieth Century) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Christian Apologetics was a talk Lewis gave sometime around Easter 1945 to an Anglican church group; now found in God …
CSL Daily 03/08/19
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. – – – PURCHASE The …
CSL Daily 03/06/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Once we have accepted an omniscient & providential God, the distinction we used to draw between the significant and the fortuitous must either break down or be restated in some v. much subtler form.” Letter to Sheldon Vanauken 3/6/1955 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – FACT OF …