QUOTE OF THE DAY: “‘Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling’— which looks as if everything depended on us and our good actions: but the second half goes on, ‘For it is God who worketh in you’— which looks as if God did everything and we nothing.” Faith (Given as a talk on …
CSL Daily 11/08/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There are a great many things [in Christianity] that cannot be understood until after you have gone a certain distance along the Christian road.” Faith (Given as a talk on the BBC on November 8, 1942 and later published as chapter 12 in Christian Behavior) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: …
CSL Daily 11/01/19
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 has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.” Faith (Given as a talk on November 1, 1942 and later published as chapter 11 in Christian Behavior) – – …
CSL Daily 10/28/19
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 Eight from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Talking about Bicycles,” one of Lewis’s shorter works was …
CSL Daily 10/26/19
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) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Poems is a book collecting nearly all of Lewis’s shorter poems. It was released on Oct. 26, 1964. …
CSL Daily 10/25/19
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 (Broadcast on BBC on 10/25/1942; Chapter Eight from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The sixth talk from the third BBC radio series …
CSL Daily 10/11/19
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 obviously either Christianity is wrong or our sexual instinct, as it now is, has gone wrong.” Sexual Morality (Broadcast on BBC on …
CSL Daily 10/09/19
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 (Chapter 10 of Beyond Personality; published 10/9/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Beyond Personality: The Christian Idea of God was published on Oct. 9, 1944; from the …
CSL Daily 10/04/19
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, impulses and so on which his psychological outfit presents him with, and which are the raw material of his choice.” Morality and Psychoanalysis (Broadcast on BBC on …
CSL Daily 09/30/19
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) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On Sept. 30, 1962 “Sex in Literature” was published in The Sunday Telegraph. – – – PURCHASE The Misquotable C.S. Lewis …