QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Bible itself gives us one short prayer which is suitable for all who are struggling with the beliefs and doctrines. It is: ‘LORD I believe, help Thou my unbelief.’” Letter to Genia Goelz 3/18/1952 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On March …
CSL Daily 02/12/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[Charles Williams writes] that sort of book in which we begin by saying, ‘Let us suppose that this everyday world were, at some one point, invaded by the marvellous. Let us, in fact, suppose a violation of frontier.’” The Novels of Charles Williams (Talk recorded and aired on 2/11/1949; now found …
CSL Daily 02/09/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them.” Preface to The Screwtape Letters (Published 2/9/1942) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: …
CSL Daily 01/28/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is no use to ask God with factious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with B. We must lay before Him what is in us not what ought to be in us.” Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer (Published on 1/27/1964) – – – FACT OF …
CSL Daily 01/05/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “In praying for people one dislikes I find it helpful to remember that one is joining in His prayer for them.” Letter to Mary Van Deusen (from The Collected Letters Of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3 on 1/5/1951) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On January 5, 1945 the ninth installment of (the eventual) The Great Divorce (chapter seven) …
CSL Daily 12/25/18
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[God] must constantly work as the iconoclast. Every idea of Him we form, He must in mercy shatter. The most blessed result of prayer would be to rise thinking ‘But I never knew before, I never dreamed . . .’” Beyond the Bright Blur (Published 12/25/1963; chapter 15 of Letters to Malcolm) – – …
[PODCAST] How to be a Christian & How to Pray (Zach Kincaid)
New and old readers of C.S. Lewis should find interesting the recent release (2018) of two collections of previously released material built around a theme. The following interview is with Zach Kincaid, the person who made the selections for both books. How To Be A Christian is a somewhat awkwardly worded title for a collection that is …
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CSL Daily 07/31/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The Business of Heaven, published in July 1984 in the US was the first book of selections from Lewis in a daily format. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Avoid introspection in prayer—I mean not to watch one’s own mind to see if it is in the right frame, but …
CSL Daily 06/23/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s poem “Vitrea Circe” was published in Punch on June 23, 1948 and was revised and reprinted in Poems. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Admits:) “Prayers offered in the state of dryness are those which please Him (God) best.” The Screwtape Letters VIII (Published in The Guardian on 6/20/1941) More Details about The Misquotable …
CSL Daily 05/23/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The fourth Screwtape letter was published May 23, 1941 in The Guardian. It deal with “the painful subject of prayer.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Boasts:) “It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things …