“The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most completely temporal part of time-for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.”
The Screwtape Letters – XV
(first published in The Guardian on 8/8/1941)
Quote: August 8, 2013
“The humans live in time but our Enemy [God] destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time which they call the Present.”
The Screwtape Letters – XV
(first published in The Guardian on 8/8/1941)
Quote: August 5, 2013
“A man is not usually called upon to have an opinion of his own talents at all, since he can very well go on improving them to the best of his ability without deciding on his own precise niche in the temple of Fame.”
The Screwtape Letters – XIV
(first published in The Guardian on 8/1/1941)
Quote: August 4, 2013
[Screwtape advises:] “You must therefore conceal from the patient the true end of Humility. Let him think of it not as self-forgetfulness but as a certain kind of opinion (namely, a low opinion) of his own talents and character.”
The Screwtape Letters – XIV
(first published in The Guardian on 8/1/1941)
Retro: August 1st – 11th
Highlights for August 1-11 include: Lewis’s first time ever on the radio, earning of a second First at Oxford and two more letters from Screwtape.
In one sense not a lot of events occurred in Lewis’s life over the years during the first week and a half in August; but then the most significant from this period is likely among the highest points in his entire life. It was on the 6th in 1941 that he stood before a microphone to
Quiz: July 26, 2013
What animal was Screwtape turn into when he became so angry with Wormwood?
Quote: June 23, 2013
(Screwtape Admits:)
“Prayers offered in the state of dryness are those which please Him (God) best.”
The Screwtape Letters – VIII
(first published in The Guardian on 6/20/1941)
Quote: June 20, 2013
(Screwtape Admits:)
“One must face the fact that all the talk about His [i.e., God’s] love for men, and His service being perfect freedom, is not (as one would gladly believe) mere propaganda, but an appalling truth.”
The Screwtape Letters – VIII
(first published in The Guardian on 6/20/1941)
Retro: June 20th – 30th
Highlights in Lewis’s life for this time frame are: Sharing The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe with his close friends four months before it was published, being awarded an honorary Doctorate of Divinity and Screwtape talking about the “law of Undulation.”
As you may recall, Lewis met frequently with a group of friends called the Inklings. They gathered at
Quote: June 13, 2013
(Screwtape Advises Wormwood:)
“All extremes, except extreme devotion to the Enemy [i.e., God], are to be encouraged.”
The Screwtape Letters – VII
(first published in The Guardian on 6/13/1941)