QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is quite right to go away from [the words of the Bible] for a moment in order to make some special point clear. But you must always go back.” Good Infection (Initially a BBC broadcast from 3/7/44) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Good Infection, the third of the …
CSL Daily 02/22/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A vague religion – all about feeling God in nature, and so on – is so attractive. It is all thrills and no work.” Making and Begetting (Initially a BBC broadcast from 2/22/44) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Making and Begetting,” the first of the 4th BBC radio series was …
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 02/01/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “You can shut [Jesus] up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God.” The Shocking Alternative (Given as a talk on the BBC on 2/1/1942) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Known as “The …
CSL Daily 11/11/18
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next.” Hope (Chapter 10 of Book III (Christian Behavior) in Mere Christianity) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The American edition of Mere Christianity was first published on …
CSL Daily 11/10/18
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on.” Faith (Given as a talk on the BBC on November 8, 1942 and later published as chapter 12 in Christian Behavior) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The …
CSL Daily 11/01/18
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Faith, in the sense in which I am using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.” Faith (Given as a talk on November 1, 1942 and later published as chapter 11 in Christian Behavior) – – – …
CSL Daily 10/29/18
FACT OF THE DAY: On Oct. 29, 1935 Oxford University Press agreed to publish The Allegory of Love. It became Lewis’s first academic title. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Nearly all those evils in the world which people put down to greed or selfishness are really far more the result of Pride.” The Great …
CSL Daily 10/28/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “Talking about Bicycles,” one of Lewis’s shorter works was published in the October, 1946 issue of Resistance. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.” The Great Sin (Broadcast on BBC on 10/25/1942; Chapter …
CSL Daily 10/26/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Poems is a book collecting nearly all of Lewis’s shorter poems that was released on Oct. 26, 1964. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.” Forgiveness (Broadcast on BBC on 10/18/1942; Chapter Seven from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity) Learn …