QUOTE OF THE DAY: “All sorts of things will make a man brave for the time being. Alcohol, ignorance of the danger, anger, self-respect, human loyalty, and love of God. But they’re not all equally good sources.” The Anvil (BBC Radio Broadcast aired 7/22/1943) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: While two dozen …
CSL Daily 07/21/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The feeling of being, or not being, forgiven and loved, is not what matters. One must come down to brass tacks. If there is a particular sin on your conscience, repent and confess it. If there isn’t, tell the despondent devil not to be silly.” Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne …
CSL Daily 07/09/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.” Mere Christianity (Published in 7/7/1952) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Revival or Decay?” was published in the British weekly humor magazine Punch on July 9, 1958. It’s now available …
CSL Daily 06/23/19
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) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s poem “Vitrea Circe” was published in Punch on June 23, 1948 and was revised and reprinted in Poems. – – – PURCHASE The Misquotable …
CSL Daily 05/22/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Only the courteous can love, but it is love that makes them courteous.” The Allegory of Love (Publish 5/21/1936) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Dangerous Oversight is a poem by Lewis published in Punch on May 21, 1947 and revised and re-titled Young King Cole in Poems. – – – PURCHASE The Misquotable C.S. …
CSL Daily 01/15/19
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 01/09/19
Learn more about the 1st Annual C.S. Lewis Quotathon. FACT OF THE DAY: “The Birth of Language” is a poem by Lewis published January 9, 1946 in Punch (it uses planetary imagery). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “May God’s grace give you the necessary humility. Try not to think—much less, speak—of their sins. One’s own are a much …
CSL Daily 11/23/18
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Whatever men expect they soon come to think they have a right to: the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury.” The Screwtape Letters – XXX (First published in The Guardian on 11/21/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “March for …
CSL Daily 11/19/18
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 09/14/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “The Adam Unparadised” is a poem first published on September 14, 1949 in Punch as “A Footnote to Pre-History.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The educated man habitually, almost without noticing it, sees the present as something that grows out of a long perspective of centuries.” “God in the Dock” (First …