QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present to us: it is the very sign of His presence.” Letter to Mary Neylan (from Collected Letters, Volume 2 on 1/20/1942) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Ministering Angels” is a short story by Lewis first published in the …
CSL Daily 01/02/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights.” Reflections on the Psalms (Published in paperback in the UK 1/2/1961) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The paperback edition of Reflections of the Psalms was published on Jan. 2, 1961. It was first released in 1958. – – …
CSL Daily 12/31/18
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When I was a youngster, all the progressive people were saying, ‘Why all this prudery? Let us treat sex just as we treat all our other impulses.’ I was simple-minded enough to believe they meant what they said. I have since discovered that they meant exactly the opposite. They meant that …
CSL Daily 11/27/18
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 11/15/18
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 11/05/18
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 09/08/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis was on the cover of Time on September 8, 1947. Reflections on the Psalms came out today in 1958. – – – 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 …
CSL Daily 08/31/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The Poem “Vowels and Sirens” came out in The Times Literary Supplement Special Autumn Issue in late August, 1952. – – – 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 …
CSL Daily 08/19/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis began recording on August 19, 1958 the first half of a 10-part radio series about four types of love. – – – 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. …
CSL Daily 07/21/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The poem known today as The Magician and the Dryad was first published in Punch on July 20, 1949. – – – 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 …