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 About Jack. Direct links to each version are …
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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 About Jack. Direct links to each version are …
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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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Welcome to Weekly Dose of C.S. Lewis Quotes! JANUARY FAVORITES EDITION 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 …
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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 …
Read the full post →“1/22 – 1/28 Weekly Dose of C.S. Lewis Quotes”
NOTE: As you may have noticed, this CSL Daily has been updated less frequently recently. This has been due in part to some hosting issues that should now be resolved. HOWEVER, even though this is fixed, I’ve decided to DISCONTINUE this feature at the end of this year. You will still be able to visit …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Joy is not a substitute for sex; sex is very often a substitute for Joy. I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for Joy.” Surprised By Joy (Published 9/19/1955) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Surprised By Joy: The Shape of My Early Life by Lewis was published …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[Flippancy] is a thousand miles away from joy; it deadens, instead of sharpening, the intellect; and it excites no affection between those who practice it.” The Screwtape Letters XI (Published in The Guardian on 7/11/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Imagination and Thought in the Middle Ages” is a talk …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Yes— it is sometimes hard to obey St. Paul’s ‘Rejoice.’ We must try to take life moment by moment. The actual present is usually pretty tolerable, I think, if only we refrain from adding to its burden that of the past and the future.” Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne on 5/4/1962 …
