FACT OF THE DAY: “Faith” is the chapter title of what was the 8th and final BBC talk from Lewis’s third series that became the book Christian Behaviour (where it is chapter 12). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There are a great many things [in Christianity] that cannot be understood until after you have gone …
CSL Daily 11/01/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “Faith” is the topic of what was the 7th BBC talk from Lewis’s third series that was heard on the radio on Nov. 1, 1942. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Faith, in the sense in which I am using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason …
CSL Daily 10/28/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “Talking about Bicycles,” one of Lewis’s shorter works was published in the October, 1946 issue of Resistance. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.” The Great Sin (Broadcast on BBC on 10/25/1942; Chapter …
CSL Daily 10/26/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Poems is a book collecting nearly all of Lewis’s shorter poems that was released on Oct. 26, 1964. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.” Forgiveness (Broadcast on BBC on 10/18/1942; Chapter Seven from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)
CSL Daily 10/25/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The sixth talk from the third BBC radio series was give live on Oct. 25, 1942. It is known as “The Great Sin.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison…[pride] is the complete anti-God state of mind.” The Great Sin …
CSL Daily 10/11/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The fourth talk from the third BBC series, “Sexual Morality” was given on Oct. 11, 1942. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Christian rule is, ‘Either marriage, with complete faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence.’ Now this is so difficult and so contrary to our instincts, that …
CSL Daily 10/09/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Beyond Personality: The Christian Idea of God was published on Oct. 9, 1944; from the final series of talks on the BBC. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world.” Nice People or New Men …
CSL Daily 10/04/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “Morality and Psychoanalysis” is the title of what was originally the third talk given on Oct. 4, 1942 from Lewis’s third BBC series. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When a man makes a moral choice two things are involved. One is the act of choosing. The other is the various feelings, …
CSL Daily 9/30/17
FACT OF THE DAY: On Sept. 30, 1962 “Sex in Literature” was published in The Sunday Telegraph. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “What I want is a straight fight between the new morality and that of the law.” Sex in Literature (Published 9/30/1962 in The Sunday Telegraph)
CSL Daily 9/28/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The September 1946 issue of The Atlantic Monthly featured an article called “C.S. Lewis, Apostle to the Skeptics” by Chad Walsh. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[Christianity] was never intended to replace or supersede the ordinary human arts and sciences: it is rather a director which will set them all to …