QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I quite agree with you about not using one’s job for propaganda: but once the pupil raises the question I think one has a free hand.” Letter to Rhona Bodle 5/28/1949 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis wrote to Sister …
CSL Daily 05/25/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “How God loves us: not because we are lovable but because He is love, not because He needs to receive but He delights to give.” Letter to Genia Goelz 5/25/1952 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Pilgrim’s Regress: An …
CSL Daily 05/15/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head but don’t be too worried about it. As long as one knows one is proud one is safe from the worst form of pride.” Letter to Genia Goelz 5/15/1952 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) …
CSL Daily 05/10/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “You don’t see Nature till you believe in the Supernatural: don’t get the full, hot, salty tang of her except by contrast with the pure water from beyond the world. Those who mistake Nature for the All are just those who can never realise her as a particular creature with …
CSL Daily 05/08/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The process of living seems to consist in coming to realise truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes. They cannot sound otherwise to those who have not had the relevant experience.” Letter to Dom Bede Griffiths OSB on 5/8/1939 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, …
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 05/01/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us: we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.” Letter to Father Peter Bide on 4/29/1959 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The first of The Screwtape …
CSL Daily 04/08/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Who said I disliked women? I never liked or disliked any generalisation.” Letter to Margaret Fuller on 4/8/1948 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On April 8, 1947 the first U.S. edition (a hardback) of The Abolition of Man was published. – – – …
CSL Daily 03/25/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Symbolism exists precisely for the purpose of conveying to the imagination what the intellect is not ready for.” Letter to Sister Penelope CSMV on 3/25/1943 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On March 25, 1987 the US edition of Present Concerns, a …
CSL Daily 02/05/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I fancy we are all too ready, once we are converted ourselves, to assume that God will deal with everyone exactly as He does with us. But He is no mass-producer and treats no two quite alike.” Letter to Mrs. Jessup on 2/5/1954 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) …