QUOTE OF THE DAY: “All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.” The Four Loves (U.S. edition first published 7/27/1960) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Expedition to Holly Bush Hill was published in the July 1913 issue of Cherbourg School Magazine; a difference Lewis essay from 1912. – – – Have …
CSL Daily 07/01/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When natural things look most divine, the demoniac is just round the corner.” The Four Loves (U.S. edition first published 7/27/1960) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis wrote a letter to the editor on July 1, 1949 to Church Times. It’s in God in the Dock as “The Church’s Liturgy.” – …
CSL Daily 06/30/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I suppose (tho’ it seems a hard saying) we should mind humiliation less if [we] were humbler…But don’t think I don’t know how much easier it is to preach than practice.” Letters to An American Lady (Published in the UK June, 1969; letter written March 31, 1954) – – – FACT …
CSL Daily 05/18/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A country clergyman wrote to the editor (of The Guardian), withdrawing his subscription on the ground that ‘much of the advice given in these letters seemed to him not only erroneous but positively diabolical.’” Preface to the Second Edition of The Screwtape Letters (Written on 5/18/1960) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: …
CSL Daily 05/09/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape boasts:) “All the habits of the patient, both mental and bodily, are still in our favour.” The Screwtape Letters II (Published in The Guardian on 5/9/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The revised edition of Miracles: A Preliminary Study was published May 9, 1960 containing a revised third chapter. – – – …
CSL Daily 03/30/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Friendship is unnecessary…it has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” The Four Loves (Published on 3/28/1960) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On March 7, 1945 Lewis wrote a letter to Mr. McClain turning down an offer for a speaking …
CSL Daily 03/28/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.” The Four Loves (Published on 3/28/1960) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Four Loves was released on March 28, 1960. It had first been a ten-part series of radio broadcasts. – – …
CSL Daily 02/11/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “To find that one’s emotions do not ‘come to heel’ and line up as stable sentiments in permanent conformity with one’s convictions is simply the facts of being a fallen, and still imperfectly redeemed, man.” Letter to Michael Edwardson 2/11/1960 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – …
CSL Daily 02/10/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together.” Membership (Talk given on 2/10/1945; now found in The Weight of Glory) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The World’s Last Night collection of essays book was first published on February 10, 1960. Lewis also gave a talk now known as “Membership” today in …
CSL Daily 09/09/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other medium is available.” Studies in Words (Published 9/9/1960) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’ Studies in Words is a title that was published on September …