CSL Daily 06/22/19

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is not really you who are holding fast to Him but He to you: and He will bring you to wherever He wants.” Letter to Rhona Bodle 6/22/1948 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II)  – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis showed the galley proofs for The Lion, …

CSL Daily 06/17/19

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. Remember, though we struggle against things because we are afraid of them, it is often the other way round— we get afraid because we struggle.” Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne 6/17/1963 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – …

CSL Daily 04/17/19

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The voice of God indeed daily calls to us; calls to the world to abandon sins and seek the Kingdom of God wholeheartedly. O that we may all hear the call of the Father and, sometime, at last be converted to the Lord.” Letter to Don Giovanni Calabria on 4/17/1949 (Published in The …

CSL Daily 01/20/19

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present to us: it is the very sign of His presence.” Letter to Mary Neylan (from Collected Letters, Volume 2 on 1/20/1942) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Ministering Angels” is a short story by Lewis first published in the …

CSL Daily 06/28/18

FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis received an honorary Doctor of Divinity from the University of St. Andrews on June 28, 1946. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Think of yourself just as a seed patiently wintering in the earth; waiting to come up a flower in the Gardener’s good time, up into the real world, …

CSL Daily 06/17/18

FACT OF THE DAY: The paperback edition of The Personal Heresy by Lewis (with E.M.W. Tillyard)  was published on June 17, 1965. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. Remember, though we struggle against things because we are afraid of them, it is often the other way …

CSL Daily 04/17/18

FACT OF THE DAY: Will We Lose God in Outer Space? was published in the April 1958 issue of Christian Herald; it’s now known as “Religion and Rocketry,” and best found in The World’s Last Night. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The voice of God indeed daily calls to us; calls to the world to …

CSL Daily 04/11/18

FACT OF THE DAY: Letters to Children was published on April 11, 1985, but its content can also be found in the Collected Letters released in the 2000’s. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “To become new men means losing what we now call ‘ourselves’. Out of our selves, into Christ, we must go.” The New Men …