QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Christian must wage endless war against the clamour of the ego as ego: but he loves and approves selves as such, though not their sins.” Two Ways with the Self (Published on 5/3/1940 in The Guardian) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Magician’s Nephew took Lewis the longest to …
CSL Daily 05/02/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.” The Magician’s Nephew (Published on 5/2/1955) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On May 2, 1955 we found out how Narnia began because The Magician’s Nephew was …
CSL Daily 04/28/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The more a man was in the Devil’s power, the less he would be aware of it, on the principle that a man is still fairly sober as long as he knows he’s drunk.” Answers to Questions on Christianity (Talk given on April 18th or 19th in 1944 at the Electric and …
CSL Daily 03/26/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now…Come further up, come further in!” The Last Battle (said by Jewel the Unicorn) (Published on 3/19/1956) – – …
CSL Daily 03/19/19
FACT OF THE DAY: The Last Battle was first published on March 19, 1956. This final Narnia story won the Carnegie Medal in Literature. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “‘Beloved,’ said the Glorious One, ‘unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they …
CSL Daily 03/10/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Nothing, not even the best and noblest, can go on as it now is. Nothing, not even what is lowest and most bestial, will not be raised again if it submits to death.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XVIII (Published in The Guardian on 3/9/1945) – – – FACT OF THE …
CSL Daily 02/20/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “First-hand knowledge is not only more worth acquiring than second-hand knowledge, but is usually much easier and more delightful to acquire.” On the Reading of Old Books (Published originally as a preface to The Incarnation of the Word of God in 1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: John, the main character …
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 02/03/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself.” The Shocking Alternative (Given as a talk on the BBC on 2/1/1942) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s short story “The Shoddy Lands” was published in the February, 1956 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. – – – PURCHASE The …
CSL Daily 01/24/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary colour in the spectrum.” The Poison of Subjectivism (Published in Christian Reflections on 1/23/1967) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: All the letters of the alphabet are …