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Tag: Surprised by Joy
9/17-23 Weekly Dose of C.S. Lewis Quotes
Welcome to Weekly Dose of C.S. Lewis Quotes! Below you’ll see seven quotes selected from a variety of Lewis’s works over the years that are related to this week (or month). There is also a special video version of this for my YouTube channel, Knowing and Understanding C.S. Lewis, and an audio-only version via my podcast, All …
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CSL Daily 09/19/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Joy is not a substitute for sex; sex is very often a substitute for Joy. I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for Joy.” Surprised By Joy (Published 9/19/1955) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Surprised By Joy: The Shape of My Early Life by Lewis was published …
CSL Daily 07/26/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape Advises:] “I would make it a rule to eradicate from my patient any strong personal taste which is not actually a sin, even if it is something quite trivial.” The Screwtape Letters XIII (Published in The Guardian on 7/25/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The U.S. Paperback editions of Surprised By Joy and Till …
CSL Daily 05/04/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Yes— it is sometimes hard to obey St. Paul’s ‘Rejoice.’ We must try to take life moment by moment. The actual present is usually pretty tolerable, I think, if only we refrain from adding to its burden that of the past and the future.” Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne on 5/4/1962 …
CSL Daily 03/08/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The words ‘God is love’ have no real meaning unless God contains at least two Persons.” Good Infection (Initially a BBC broadcast from 3/7/44) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: In March 1948 Lewis began writing his autobiography Surprised by Joy, but it wasn’t published until 1955. – – – …
CSL Daily 09/19/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Joy is not a substitute for sex; sex is very often a substitute for Joy. I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for Joy.” Surprised By Joy (Published 9/19/1955) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Surprised By Joy: The Shape of My Early Life by Lewis was published …
CSL Daily 07/26/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape Advises:] “I would make it a rule to eradicate from my patient any strong personal taste which is not actually a sin, even if it is something quite trivial.” The Screwtape Letters XIII (Published in The Guardian on 7/25/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The U.S. Paperback editions of Surprised By Joy and Till …
CSL Daily 05/04/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Yes— it is sometimes hard to obey St. Paul’s ‘Rejoice.’ We must try to take life moment by moment. The actual present is usually pretty tolerable, I think, if only we refrain from adding to its burden that of the past and the future.” Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne on 5/4/1962 …
CSL Daily 03/08/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The words ‘God is love’ have no real meaning unless God contains at least two Persons.” Good Infection (Initially a BBC broadcast from 3/7/44) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: In March, 1948 Lewis began writing his autobiography Surprised by Joy, but it wasn’t published until 1955. – – – PURCHASE The …