FACT OF THE DAY: On March 7, 1945 Lewis wrote a letter to Mr. McClain turning down an offer for a speaking tour in America. – – – 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 …
CSL Daily 3/28/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The Four Loves was released on March 28, 1960 and had first been a ten-part series of broadcasts. – – – 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)
CSL Daily 2/10/17
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 1945. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together.” Membership (Talk given on 2/10/1945; now found …
CSL Daily 9/9
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s Studies in Words is a title that was published today (Sept. 9) in 1960 by Cambridge University Press. – – – 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 …
CSL Daily 7/27
FACT OF THE DAY: The first US edition of The Four Loves was published today (7/27) in 1960. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We find thus by experience that there is no good applying to Heaven for earthly comfort. Heaven can give heavenly comfort; no other kind.” The Four Loves (U.S. edition Published …
CSL Daily 7/15
FACT OF THE DAY: “It All Began with a Picture” was an essay published in Radio Times today (7/15) in 1960 telling how Lewis got the idea for Narnia. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “All my seven Narnian books, and my three science fiction books, began with seeing pictures in my head.” It All Began with …
CSL Daily 7/2
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. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.”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)
CSL Daily 7/1
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis wrote a letter to the editor on this day (7/1) in 1949 to Church Times. It’s in God in the Dock as “The Church’s Liturgy.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When natural things look most divine, the demoniac is just round the corner.” The Four Loves (U.S. edition …
CSL Daily 6/30
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s book review of “The Allegory of the ‘Faerie Queen’” was published in the 6/11/60 issue of The Cambridge Review. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We should mind humiliation less if [we] were humbler.” Letters to An American Lady (Published in the UK June, 1969; letter written March 31, 1954)
CSL Daily 5/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s mother, Florence Augusta Hamilton, was born today (5/18) in 1862. She went by “Flora.” – – – 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 …