QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Die before you die, there is no chance after.” Till We Have Faces (Published 9/10/1956 – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Till We Have Faces, Lewis’s last published fictional work was released on September 10, 1956. – – – PURCHASE The Misquotable C.S. Lewis
CSL Daily 08/18/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I think God wants us to love Him more, not to love creatures (even animals) less.” Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne on 8/18/1956 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Solomon,” a poem by Lewis was published in the August 14, 1946 …
CSL Daily 08/07/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The good things even of this world are far too good ever to be reached by imagination. Even the common orange, you know: no one could have imagined it before he tasted it. How much less Heaven.” Letter to Mrs. Johnson 8/7/1956 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) …
CSL Daily 07/14/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[Flippancy] is a thousand miles away from joy; it deadens, instead of sharpening, the intellect; and it excites no affection between those who practice it.” The Screwtape Letters XI (Published in The Guardian on 7/11/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Imagination and Thought in the Middle Ages” is a talk …
CSL Daily 04/23/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “All the beauty of nature withers when we try to make it absolute. Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first & we lose both first and second things.” Letter to Dom Bede Griffiths OSB on 4/23/1951 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, …
CSL Daily 04/21/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed. They that are whole need not the physician. Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.” Religion and Rocketry (Published as “Will We Lose God in Outer Space” in the April, 1958 …
CSL Daily 03/26/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now…Come further up, come further in!” The Last Battle (said by Jewel the Unicorn) (Published on 3/19/1956) – – …
CSL Daily 03/19/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “‘Beloved,’ said the Glorious One, ‘unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they truly seek.’” The Last Battle (Published on 3/19/1956) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Last Battle was first published on March 19, 1956. …
CSL Daily 03/02/20
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 02/03/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself.” The Shocking Alternative (Given as a talk on the BBC on 2/1/1942) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s short story “The Shoddy Lands” was published in the February, 1956 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. It’s now available …