QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XVII (Published in The Guardian on 3/2/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis read his paper “The Personal Heresy in Poetics” to …
CSL Daily 02/17/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Christian…does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.” The Practical Conclusion (BBC talk given on 2/15/1942) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Cosmic Trilogy (a collection of all three Sci-Fi books by Lewis) was released …
CSL Daily 02/14/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Bereavement is not the truncation of married love but one of its regular phases—like the honeymoon. What we want is to live our marriage well and faithfully through that phase too. If it hurts (and it certainly will) we accept the pains as a necessary part of this phase.” A Grief …
CSL Daily 02/06/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.” The Shocking Alternative (Given as a talk on the BBC on 2/1/1942) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Magician’s Nephew took Lewis the longest to write …
CSL Daily 01/08/19
Learn more about the 1st Annual C.S. Lewis Quotathon. QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The question is not whether we should bring God into our work or not. We certainly should and must…Each vocation has its peculiar dangers and peculiar rewards.” Letter to Sheldon Vanauken (from Collected Letters, Volume 3 on 1/8/1951) – – – FACT OF THE …
CSL Daily 08/19/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis began recording on August 19, 1958 the first half of a 10-part radio series about four types of love. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “To nearly all ancient men, and to many medieval men, friendship seemed the most valuable and the most completely human of all natural loves. …
CSL Daily 08/18/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “Solomon,” a poem by Lewis was published in the August 14, 1946 issue of Punch. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I think God wants us to love Him more, not to love creatures (even animals) less.” Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne on 8/18/1956 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, …
CSL Daily 07/30/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “Epitaph” is a poem published on July 30, 1948 in The Spectator. Revised and re-titled as “Epigrams and Epitaphs” in Poems. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We really don’t know much about loving until we’re in touch with love Himself.” The Anvil (BBC Radio Broadcast aired 7/22/1943) Learn More Details about The …
CSL Daily 05/25/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The Pilgrim’s Regress: An Allegorical Apology for Christianity, Reason and Romanticism was published on May 25, 1933. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “How God loves us: not because we are lovable but because He is love, not because He needs to receive but He delights to give.” Letter to Genia …
CSL Daily 03/12/18
FACT OF THE DAY: On March 12, 1919 Lewis presented a paper to the Marlets on the textile designer, artist, writer and Utopian socialist, William Morris. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “God is love, and that love works through men— especially through the whole community of Christians.” Good Infection (Initially a BBC broadcast from …