QUOTE OF THE DAY: “For it is not so much of our time and so much of our attention that God demands; it is not even all our time and all our attention: it is our selves.” A Slip of the Tongue (Sermon preached on 1/29/1956) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis …
CSL Daily 12/10/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If it is true that all our enjoyment of the images, without remainder, can be explained in terms of infantile sexuality, then, I confess, our literary judgements are in ruins. But I do not believe it is true.” Psycho-Analysis and Literary Criticism (Published in Selected Literary Essays; released on 12/4/1969) – – – …
CSL Daily 11/19/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I saw how stories of this kind [fairy stories] could steal past a certain inhabitant which had paralysed much of my own religion in childhood.” Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What’s to Be Said (First published in The New York Times Book Review on 11/18/1956) – – – FACT OF THE …
CSL Daily 11/18/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.” Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What’s to Be Said (First published in The New York Times Book Review on 11/18/1956) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What’s to Be Said” was first …
CSL Daily 09/10/19
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 08/18/19
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 08/07/19
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 07/14/19
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 04/23/19
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 04/21/19
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 …