NOTE: As you may have noticed, this CSL Daily has been updated less frequently recently. This has been due in part to some hosting issues that should now be resolved. HOWEVER, even though this is fixed, I’ve decided to DISCONTINUE this feature after TODAY. You will still be able to visit archives here and my …
CSL Daily 11/27/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I freely admit that, believing both, I have stressed the transcendence of God more than His immanence. I thought, and think, that the present situation demands this. I see around me no danger of Deism but much of an immoral, naive and sentimental pantheism. I have often found that it was …
CSL Daily 11/15/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Suggests:) “Despair is a greater sin than any of the sins which provoke it.” The Screwtape Letters – XXIX (First published in The Guardian on 11/14/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On Nov. 14, 1958 Lewis wrote to Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher to accept his invitation to become a member of …
CSL Daily 11/05/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A little comic relief in a discussion does no harm, however serious the topic may be. (In my own experience the funniest things have occurred in the gravest and most sincere conversations.)” Reflections on the Psalms (Published in November 5, 1958 in the U.S.) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: …
CSL Daily 09/08/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst. Of all created beings the wickedest is one who originally stood in the immediate presence of God.” Reflections on the Psalms (Published on 9/8/58) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis was on the cover of Time on September 8, 1947. Reflections …
CSL Daily 08/31/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: [After explaining some weaknesses in a child’s stories:] “I hope you don’t mind me telling you all this? One can learn only by seeing one’s mistakes. Letter to Joan Lancaster on 8/31/1958 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Poem “Vowels …
CSL Daily 08/19/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “To nearly all ancient men, and to many medieval men, friendship seemed the most valuable and the most completely human of all natural loves. It was for them the crown of life and the school of virtues.” The Four Loves (First Recorded for Radio on 8/19 & 8/20/1958) – – – …
CSL Daily 07/21/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The feeling of being, or not being, forgiven and loved, is not what matters. One must come down to brass tacks. If there is a particular sin on your conscience, repent and confess it. If there isn’t, tell the despondent devil not to be silly.” Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne …
CSL Daily 07/20/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.” Willing Slaves of the Welfare State (Published in The Observer on 7/20/1958) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Willing Slaves of the Welfare State was …
CSL Daily 07/09/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.” Mere Christianity (Published in 7/7/1952) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Revival or Decay?” was published in the British weekly humor magazine Punch on July 9, 1958. It’s now available …