QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Christianity…is precisely the story of a great Miracle. A naturalistic Christianity leaves out all that is specifically Christian.” Miracles: A Preliminary Study (Published on 5/12/1947) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Adam at Night is a poem published in Punch on May 11, 1949 then revised and re-titled as The …
CSL Daily 01/15/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself.” The Great Divorce (Published on 1/14/1946) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Pan’s Purge,” a poem by Lewis was published January 15, 1947 in Punch; it’s now printed in Poems. – – – PURCHASE The Misquotable C.S. Lewis
CSL Daily 12/26/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “In this world everything is upside down. That which, if it could be prolonged here, would be a truancy, is likest that which in a better country is the End of ends. Joy is the serious business of Heaven.” Beyond the Bright Blur (Published 12/25/1963; chapter 17 of Letters to Malcolm) – …
CSL Daily 11/19/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I saw how stories of this kind [fairy stories] could steal past a certain inhabitant which had paralysed much of my own religion in childhood.” Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What’s to Be Said (First published in The New York Times Book Review on 11/18/1956) – – – FACT OF THE …
CSL Daily 10/26/19
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) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Poems is a book collecting nearly all of Lewis’s shorter poems. It was released on Oct. 26, 1964. …
CSL Daily 09/24/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.” Out of the Silent Planet (Published 9/23/1938) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On September 12, 1951 “The Country of the Blind” is a poem first published in Punch and available in Poems. – – – PURCHASE The Misquotable C.S. Lewis
CSL Daily 09/18/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The limit of giving is to be the limit of our ability to give.” English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (Published 9/16/1954) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “The Landing” is a poem published in Punch on Sept. 15, 1948; a revised version is in Poems. – – – PURCHASE The Misquotable C.S. Lewis …
CSL Daily 08/07/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The good things even of this world are far too good ever to be reached by imagination. Even the common orange, you know: no one could have imagined it before he tasted it. How much less Heaven.” Letter to Mrs. Johnson 8/7/1956 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) …
CSL Daily 08/02/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “God’s presence is not the same as the feeling of God’s presence and He may be doing most for us when we think He is doing least.” Letter to Mary Margaret McCaslin 8/2/1954 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “On the …
CSL Daily 07/30/19
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) – – – 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. – – – …