FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s article “Two Ways with the Self” was published on May 3, 1940 in The Guardian. It’s available in God in the Dock. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There are two kinds of self-hatred which look rather alike in their earlier stages, but of which one is wrong from the beginning …
CSL Daily 05/01/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The first of The Screwtape Letters debuted this month (May 2nd) in 1941 when it appeared in The Guardian (a weekly newspaper). Gain more from this material with my enhanced study guide, C.S. Lewis Goes to Hell: A Companion and Study Guide to The Screwtape Letters. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We are not …
CSL Daily 04/25/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “The Grand Miracle,” preached earlier this month in 1945 was printed in the April 27, 1945 issue of The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If I remember rightly, St. Augustine raised a question about the theological position of satyrs, monopods, and other semi-human creatures. He decided it could wait …
CSL Daily 04/13/18
FACT OF THE DAY: 23rd & final installment of what eventually became part of The Great Divorce was published on April 13, 1945 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Only the Greatest of all can make Himself small enough to enter Hell. For the higher a thing is, the lower it can descend.” Who …
CSL Daily 04/06/18
FACT OF THE DAY: 22nd installment of what eventually became part of The Great Divorce was published April 6, 1945 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it: or else for ever and ever the …
CSL Daily 03/29/18
FACT OF THE DAY: 21st installment of what eventually became part of The Great Divorce was published March 29, 1945 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[In Heaven there] is joy that cannot be shaken. Our light can swallow up your darkness: but your darkness cannot now infect our light.” Who Goes Home? or …
CSL Daily 03/26/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “Dogma and Science” was published March 26, 1943 in The Guardian; it’s now part of “Dogma and the Universe” in God in the Dock. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been …
CSL Daily 03/16/18
FACT OF THE DAY: 19th installment of what eventually became The Great Divorce was published March 16, 1945 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Fame in [Heaven] and fame on Earth are two quite different things.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XIX (Published in The Guardian on 3/16/1945)
CSL Daily 03/15/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “Dangers of National Repentance” is an essay by Lewis published March 15, 1940 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard.” Dangers of National Repentance (Published in The Guardian on 3/15/40)
CSL Daily 03/09/18
FACT OF THE DAY: 18th installment of the eventual book The Great Divorce was published in The Guardian on March 9, 1945. It was the first half of Ch. 12. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is no use to say `Lord, Lord’, if we do not do what Christ tells us.” Mr C. S. Lewis on …