Welcome to Weekly Dose of C.S. Lewis Quotes! Below you’ll see seven quotes selected from a variety of Lewis’s works over the years that are related to this week (or month). There is also a special video version of this for my YouTube channel, Knowing and Understanding C.S. Lewis, and an audio-only version via my podcast, All …
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Welcome to Weekly Dose of C.S. Lewis Quotes! Below you’ll see seven quotes selected from a variety of Lewis’s works over the years that are related to this week (or month). There is also a special video version of this for my YouTube channel, Knowing and Understanding C.S. Lewis, and an audio-only version via my podcast, All …
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous.” The Inner Ring (Talk given on 12/14/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis gave the annual Commemoration Oration at King’s College on Dec. 14, 1944. His topic was “The Inner Ring.” – – …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.” The Pilgrim’s Regress (2nd Edition Published October 1935) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: A second edition of The Pilgrim’s Regress was published in October, 1935 by Sheed & Ward. The first publisher was J.M. Dent …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Glory, as Christianity teaches me to hope for it, turns out to satisfy my original desire and indeed to reveal an element in that desire which I had not noticed.” The Weight of Glory (Sermon preached on 6/8/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: An Expostulation (against too many writers …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “…Good images of what we really desire…the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.” The Weight of Glory (Sermon preached on 6/8/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: An expanded …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If we are made for heaven, the desire for our proper place will be already in us, but not yet attached to the true object, and will even appear as the rival of that object.” The Weight of Glory (Sermon preached on 6/8/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now…Come further up, come further in!” The Last Battle (said by Jewel the Unicorn) (Published on 3/19/1956) – – …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “‘Beloved,’ said the Glorious One, ‘unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they truly seek.’” The Last Battle (Published on 3/19/1956) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Last Battle was first published on March 19, 1956. …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It’s only the little germ of a desire for God that we need to start the process.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XVI (Published in The Guardian on 2/23/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Narrative Poems was published for the first time in the US on February 23, 1972. …
