QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Once we have accepted an omniscient & providential God, the distinction we used to draw between the significant and the fortuitous must either break down or be restated in some v. much subtler form.” Letter to Sheldon Vanauken 3/6/1955 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – FACT OF …
CSL Daily 03/02/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “What we practise, not (save at rare intervals) what we preach, is usually our great contribution to the conversion of others.” Letter to Mrs. Johnson 3/2/1955 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Memory of Sir Walter Scott” was a talk Lewis …
CSL Daily 01/05/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “In praying for people one dislikes I find it helpful to remember that one is joining in His prayer for them.” Letter to Mary Van Deusen (from The Collected Letters Of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3 on 1/5/1951) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On January 5, 1945 the ninth installment of (the eventual) The Great Divorce (chapter seven) …
CSL Daily 12/03/18
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?” (Published in A Mind Awake; from a letter to Sheldon Vanauken on 12/23/1950 found in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. …
CSL Daily 08/18/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “Solomon,” a poem by Lewis was published in the August 14, 1946 issue of Punch. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I think God wants us to love Him more, not to love creatures (even animals) less.” Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne on 8/18/1956 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, …
CSL Daily 08/07/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The poem “Two Kinds of Memory” was published on August 7, 1947 in Time and Tide. A revised version is in Poems. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The good things even of this world are far too good ever to be reached by imagination. Even the common orange, you know: no …
CSL Daily 08/03/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis resigned from Cambridge in August, 1963. There he had held the chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I take it as a first principle that we must not interpret any one part of Scripture so that it contradicts other parts, and specially we …
CSL Daily 08/02/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “On the Death of Charles Williams” (“To Charles Williams” in Poems) was first published in the August, 1945 issue of Britain Today. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “God’s presence is not the same as the feeling of God’s presence and He may be doing most for us when we think He …
CSL Daily 08/01/18
FACT OF THE DAY: On August 1, 1941 the 14th letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian before being available in the book The Screwtape Letters. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing … it is irresistible. If even ten per cent …
CSL Daily 07/31/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The Business of Heaven, published in July 1984 in the US was the first book of selections from Lewis in a daily format. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Avoid introspection in prayer—I mean not to watch one’s own mind to see if it is in the right frame, but …