FACT OF THE DAY: On Oct. 5, 1954 The Horse and His Boy was release in the US for the first time. It debuted in the UK last month. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him.” (Broadcast …
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 …
CSL Daily 9/27/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The 2nd talk in the third BBC series (Christian Behaviour) was broadcast on Sept. 27, 1942. Published it was called “Social Morality.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.” Social Morality (Broadcast on BBC …
CSL Daily 9/20/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Christian Behaviour, the third BBC series for Lewis began on September 20, 1942. The first talk was “The Three Parts of Morality.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Think of humanity as a band playing a tune. To get a good result, you need two things. Each player’s individual instrument …
CSL Daily 4/19/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Christian Behaviour was first published on April 19, 1943. It is better known for being Book 3 of Mere Christianity. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Hope…a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think) a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one …
CSL Daily 11/08
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 …
CSL Daily 10/29
FACT OF THE DAY: On this date (Oct. 29) in 1935 Oxford University Press agreed to publish The Allegory of Love. It became Lewis’s first academic title. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Nearly all those evils in the world which people put down to greed or selfishness are really far more the result …
CSL Daily 10/28
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; …
CSL Daily 10/26
FACT OF THE DAY: Poems is a book collecting nearly all of Lewis’s shorter poems that was released on this date (Oct. 26) in 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 …
CSL Daily 10/25
FACT OF THE DAY: The sixth talk from the third BBC radio series was give live today (Oct. 25) in 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 …