QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The process of living seems to consist in coming to realise truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes. They cannot sound otherwise to those who have not had the relevant experience.” Letter to Dom Bede Griffiths OSB on 5/8/1939 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, …
CSL Daily 05/03/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There are two kinds of self-hatred which look rather alike in their earlier stages, but of which one is wrong from the beginning and the other right to the end.” Two Ways with the Self (Published on 5/3/1940 in The Guardian) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s article “Two …
CSL Daily 04/24/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. It if means the desire to get ahead of other people—which is what I think it does mean—then it is bad. If it means simply wanting to do a thing well, then it is good.” Answers to Questions on Christianity …
CSL Daily 04/03/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Those who read poetry to improve their minds will never improve their minds by reading poetry.” Lilies That Fester (Published April, 1955 in Twentieth Century) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Christian Apologetics was a talk Lewis gave sometime around Easter 1945 to an Anglican church group; now found in God …
CSL Daily 02/21/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Is it not equally reasonable to look outside Nature for the real Originator of the natural order?” Who Was Right—Dream Lecturer or Real Lecturer? (First published on 2/21/1945 in The Coventry Evening Telegraph, it was reprinted as Two Lectures in God in the Dock) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On February 21, 1945 …
CSL Daily 12/10/19
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) – – – …
CSL Daily 11/30/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it’s not so bad.” Answers to Questions on Christianity (Published in God in the Dock; 11/30/1970) – – – FACT OF …
CSL Daily 09/21/19
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: …
CSL Daily 09/14/19
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 …
CSL Daily 09/01/19
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) – …