Welcome to something new for 2022 – the Weekly Dose of C.S. Lewis Quotes! Each week I’m sharing quotes that originally were selected for what was once a daily feature on this site. I had retired that feature after repeating it for several years but decided to update the graphic and make it a weekly …
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If there were anything outside Nature, and if it interfered – then the events which the scientist expected wouldn’t follow. That would be what we call a miracle.” Religion and Science (Published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph on 1/3/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The essay “Religion and Science” was published …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If there were anything outside Nature, and if it interfered – then the events which the scientist expected wouldn’t follow. That would be what we call a miracle.” Religion and Science (Published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph on 1/3/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The essay “Religion and Science” was published …
FACT OF THE DAY: The essay “Religion and Science” was published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph on Jan. 3, 1945. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If there were anything outside Nature, and if it interfered – then the events which the scientist expected wouldn’t follow. That would be what we call a miracle.” Religion and …
FACT OF THE DAY: The essay “Religion and Science” was published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph on Jan. 3, 1945. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If there were anything outside Nature, and if it interfered – then the events which the scientist expected wouldn’t follow. That would be what we call a miracle.” …
I’ve been working on a short talk for the 2014 Taylor Colloquium (9th Frances White Ewbank Colloquium on C.S. Lewis & Friends) about quotes falsely attributed to Lewis. Along the way I’ve come across some lesser known quotations that some might have a difficult time believing he DID say. While a collection of quotes of this nature could contain a variety of categories, I’ve chosen to share sayings that are generally humorous (however, some may be more ironic, than funny).
“A good toe-nail is not an unsuccessful attempt at a brain: and if it were conscious it wd. delight in being simply a good toe-nail.”
(Letter to Hugh Kilmer from April 5, 1961 in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3)
“If you think you are a poached egg, when you are looking for a piece of toast to suit you, you may be sane, but if you think you are God, there is no chance for you.”
(Essay – What Are We to Make of Jesus Christ? in God in the Dock)
FACT OF THE DAY:
The essay “Religion and Science” was published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph on this day (1/3) in 1945.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“If there were anything outside Nature, and if it interfered – then the events which the scientist expected wouldn’t follow. That would be what we call a miracle.”
Religion and Science
(Published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph on 1/3/1945)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Although fourteen chapters are in The Great Divorce, it was first published in how many weekly installments?
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Highlights for the first third of January (1st – 10th) include: Two books published for the first time (one posthumously), two paperback debuts, and initial US versions of two of his books.
If you’ve been reading this series for any three month span, you likely noticed he wrote a good variety of books (some being published after his death). Sometimes I’ve noted when Lewis’s books were released in the US for the first time or when debuting in paperback editions. During this short period a total of six books became available in one of these forms or another.
It was on the 6th in 1944 that The Abolition of Man was released. This is the only book of totally new material during this third segment of January.
Back in May (2013) I told about three “visual” presentations of essays by C.S. Lewis created by a person desiring to make Lewis’s work easier to understand. They are videos freely available on YouTube. I felt it a good time to highlight this excellent work again because he recently added two more videos (see below for a list of all of them). Each are great pieces by Lewis that are often overlooked. As this month is the 50th anniversary of Lewis’s death it’s a good time to be reminded of these lesser known shorter writings. The person goes by “C.S. Lewis Doodle” on YouTube and the style of his presentation is ‘Art Deco’ that was popular in the 1920-40’s.
