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 09/21/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “The Sermon and the Lunch” was first published on September 21, 1945 in Church of England Newspaper. It’s now in God in the Dock. – – – 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 …
CSL Daily 09/14/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “The Adam Unparadised” is a poem first published on September 14, 1949 in Punch as “A Footnote to Pre-History.” – – – 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 …
CSL Daily 09/01/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “God in the Dock” was published as “Difficulties in Presenting the Christian Faith to Modern Unbelievers” in September ’48 in Lumen Vitae. – – – 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 …
CSL Daily 08/05/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “Invocation of Saints” is a letter published on August 5, 1949 in Church Times and is now in God in the Dock. – – – 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 …
CSL Daily 07/20/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Willing Slaves of the Welfare State was published July 20, 1958 in The Observer. It was part of series on Is Progress Possible? Here’s an ESSAY CHAT podcast about it. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as …
CSL Daily 07/12/18
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: “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) More Details …
CSL Daily 05/20/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis spoke on “Religion without Dogma?” on May 20, 1946 before the Oxford Socratic Club. An updated version is 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 …
CSL Daily 05/08/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis was interviewed in May 1963 by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Published later that year and it is in God in the Dock. – – – 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 …
CSL Daily 05/03/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s article “Two Ways with the Self” was published on May 3, 1940 in The Guardian. It’s available in God in the Dock. – – – 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 …