QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Boasts:) “One of the great, achievements of the last hundred years has been to deaden the human conscience on [gluttony], so that by now you will hardly find a sermon preached or a conscience troubled about it.” The Screwtape Letters XVII (Published in The Guardian on 8/22/1941) – – – FACT …
CSL Daily 06/14/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Perfect humility dispenses with modesty. If God is satisfied with the work, the work my be satisfied with itself.” The Weight of Glory (Sermon preached on 6/8/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis finished his academic studies at Oxford near the end of June, 1923, beginning his exams on …
CSL Daily 05/31/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I take our emotional life to be ‘higher’ than the life of our sensations – not, of course, morally higher, but richer, more varied, more subtle.” Transposition (Sermon preached on 5/28/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On May 31, 1951 Lewis was having dinner with Roger Lancelyn Green …
CSL Daily 05/29/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[God] made His own plan or plot of history such that it admits a certain amount of free play and can be modified in response to our prayers.” Work and Prayer (Published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph on 5/28/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Transposition is a sermon Lewis preached on …
CSL Daily 01/29/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “For it is not so much of our time and so much of our attention that God demands; it is not even all our time and all our attention: it is our selves.” A Slip of the Tongue (Sermon preached on 1/29/1956) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis preached …
CSL Daily 08/22/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The 17th letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian today (Aug. 22) in 1941. It dealt with gluttony in a unique way. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Boasts:) “One of the great, achievements of the last hundred years has been to deaden the human conscience on [gluttony], …
CSL Daily 06/14/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis finished his academic studies at Oxford near the end of June, 1923, beginning his exams on the 14th. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Perfect humility dispenses with modesty. If God is satisfied with the work, the work my be satisfied with itself.” The Weight of Glory (Sermon preached …
CSL Daily 05/31/18
FACT OF THE DAY: On May 31, 1951 Lewis was having dinner with Roger Lancelyn Green and it was on this occasion that he asked him to be his biographer. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I take our emotional life to be ‘higher’ than the life of our sensations – not, of course, …
CSL Daily 05/29/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Transposition is a sermon Lewis preached on May, 28, 1944 at the chapel of Mansfield College. The text is in The Weight of Glory. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[God] made His own plan or plot of history such that it admits a certain amount of free play and can …
CSL Daily 01/29/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis preached his final sermon, “A Slip of the Tongue” on January 29, 1956. It was preached at Evernsong at Magdalene College. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “For it is not so much of our time and so much of our attention that God demands; it is not even …