FACT OF THE DAY: The 18th Screwtape letter first came out on August 29, 1941 in The Guardian before being published in The Screwtape Letters. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Reveals:) “The whole philosophy of Hell rests on recognition of the axiom that one thing is not another thing, and, specially, that one self …
CSL Daily 08/08/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The 15th letter from Screwtape was published on August 8, 1941 in The Guardian. Themes include understanding Time. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “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 …
CSL Daily 08/01/18
FACT OF THE DAY: On August 1, 1941 the 14th letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian before being available in the book The Screwtape Letters. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing … it is irresistible. If even ten per cent …
CSL Daily 07/25/18
FACT OF THE DAY: On July 25, 1941 the 13th letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian. Wormwood has failed again…second conversion. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape Admits:] “I know that the Enemy [God] also wants to detach men from themselves, but in a different way. Remember always, that he really likes the …
CSL Daily 07/18/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The twelfth letter from Screwtape was published on July 18, 1941 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Proudly States:) “The only thing that matters is the extent to which you separate the man from the Enemy [God]. It does not matter how small the sins are provided …
CSL Daily 07/11/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The eleventh letter from Screwtape was published on July 11, 1941 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I don’t believe that good work is ever done in a hurry.” Letter to Arthur Greeves 7/11/1916 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume I) More Details about The Misquotable …
CSL Daily 07/08/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis first used the term “Mere Christianity” in The Screwtape Letters #25; initially published Oct. 17, 1941 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Our divisions should never be discussed except in the presence of those who have already come to believe that there is one God and that Jesus Christ …
CSL Daily 07/04/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The tenth installment of The Screwtape Letters was published on July 4, 1941 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape commenting on the patient faking cynical and skeptical attitudes): “All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.” The Screwtape Letters X (Published in The Guardian on 7/4/1941) …
CSL Daily 06/29/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The ninth letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian on June 27, 1941. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Laments:)”All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy has produced, at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He has forbidden.” The …
CSL Daily 06/23/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s poem “Vitrea Circe” was published in Punch on June 23, 1948 and was revised and reprinted in Poems. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Admits:) “Prayers offered in the state of dryness are those which please Him (God) best.” The Screwtape Letters VIII (Published in The Guardian on 6/20/1941) More Details about The Misquotable …