QUOTE OF THE DAY: “You cannot know that everything in the representation of a thing is symbolical unless you have independent access to the thing and can compare it with the representation.” Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism (Talk given on 5/11/1959) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The talk “Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism” …
CSL Daily 05/04/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Yes— it is sometimes hard to obey St. Paul’s ‘Rejoice.’ We must try to take life moment by moment. The actual present is usually pretty tolerable, I think, if only we refrain from adding to its burden that of the past and the future.” Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne on 5/4/1962 …
CSL Daily 05/01/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us: we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.” Letter to Father Peter Bide on 4/29/1959 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The first of The Screwtape …
CSL Daily 12/24/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The degraded commercialism of our minds is quite as much its result as its cause.” Good Work and Good Works (Published in Good Work in Christmas, 1959 issue) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On Dec. 24, 1918 Lewis was demobilized from the army after being discharged from the hospital. …
CSL Daily 12/23/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The apostle says every one must not only work but work to produce what is ‘good.’” Good Work and Good Works (Published in Good Work in Christmas, 1959 issue) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Good Work and Good Works” by Lewis was published in the Christmas 1959 issue of Good Work (formerly Catholic …
CSL Daily 12/19/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: Screwtape Lectures: “Democracy is the word with which you must lead them by the nose. The good work which our philological experts have already done in the corruption of human language makes it unnecessary to warn you that they should never be allowed to give this word a clear and definable …
CSL Daily 10/23/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “God makes no appetite in vain.” Learning in War-Time (Preached on 10/22/1939 as “None Other Gods: Culture in War-Time”) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The sixth and final radio drama of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe aired on the BBC on Oct. 23, 1959. – – – PURCHASE The …
CSL Daily 09/17/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our philosophy [belief system], not our whole philosophy on a feeling.” Religion: Reality or Substitute? (Published in September-October, 1941 issue of World Dominion) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe began being dramatized …
CSL Daily 06/21/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Glory, as Christianity teaches me to hope for it, turns out to satisfy my original desire and indeed to reveal an element in that desire which I had not noticed.” The Weight of Glory (Sermon preached on 6/8/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: An Expostulation (against too many writers …
CSL Daily 05/17/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of scepticism about scepticism itself.” Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism (Talk given on 5/11/1959) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Planets, a poem by Lewis was first published in the May, 1935 issue of Lysistrata, II. – – – …