Welcome to Weekly Dose of C.S. Lewis Quotes! Each week I’m sharing quotes that originally were selected for what was once a daily feature on this site. I had retired that feature after repeating it for several years but decided to update the graphic and make it a weekly feature. Speaking of features, I’m also …
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Welcome to something new for 2022 – the Weekly Dose of C.S. Lewis Quotes! Each week I’m sharing quotes that originally were selected for what was once a daily feature on this site. I had retired that feature after repeating it for several years but decided to update the graphic and make it a weekly …
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If it is true that all our enjoyment of the images, without remainder, can be explained in terms of infantile sexuality, then, I confess, our literary judgements are in ruins. But I do not believe it is true.” Psycho-Analysis and Literary Criticism (Published in Selected Literary Essays; released on 12/4/1969) – – – …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The greed to be loved is a fearful thing. Some of those who say (and almost with pride) that they live only for love come, at last, to live in incessant resentment.” The Sermon and the Lunch (Published 9/21/1945 in Church of England Newspaper) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The educated man habitually, almost without noticing it, sees the present as something that grows out of a long perspective of centuries.” “God in the Dock” (First published as “Difficulties in Presenting the Christian Faith to Modern Unbelievers” in September 1948 issue of Lumen Vitae) – – – FACT OF THE …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The ancient man approached God (or even the gods) as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are reversed. He is the judge: God is in the dock.” Difficulties in Presenting the Christian Faith to Modern Unbelievers (Published in September 1948 issue of Lumen Vitae) – …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape advises:] “You must therefore conceal from the patient the true end of Humility. Let him think of it not as self-forgetfulness but as a certain kind of opinion (namely, a low opinion) of his own talents and character.” The Screwtape Letters XIV (Published in The Guardian on 8/1/1941) – – – FACT …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.” Willing Slaves of the Welfare State (Published in The Observer on 7/20/1958) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Willing Slaves of the Welfare State was …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Flippancy builds up around a man the finest armour-plating against the Enemy [God].” The Screwtape Letters XI (Published in The Guardian on 7/11/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: First and Second Things is an essay collection released on July 11, 1985 that actually contains material found in God in the Dock. – …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[The] scientific method merely shows…that if miracles did occur, science, as science, could not prove, or disprove, their occurrence.” Religion without Dogma? (Talk given on 5/20/1946) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis spoke on “Religion without Dogma?” on May 20, 1946 before the Oxford Socratic Club. An updated version …
