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 3/15/17
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 3/9/17
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. …
CSL Daily 3/3/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis read his paper “The Personal Heresy in Poetics” to a group known as the Martlets on March 3, 1930. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.” Who Goes …
CSL Daily 1/26/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The first meeting of the Oxford Socratic Club was on January 26, 1942. Lewis was the 1st president. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself…as if …
CSL Daily 1/10/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The January 10, 1941 issue of The Guardian included “Meditation on the Third Commandment” from Lewis. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The danger of mistaking our merely natural, though perhaps legitimate, enthusiasms for holy zeal, is always great.” Meditation on the Third Commandment (Published in The Guardian on 1/10/1941)
CSL Daily 1/5/17
FACT OF THE DAY: On January 5, 1945 the ninth installment of (the eventual) The Great Divorce (chapter seven) was published in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “In praying for people one dislikes I find it helpful to remember that one is joining in His prayer for them.” Letter to Mary Van …
CSL Daily 12/29
FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce VIII” was published today (Dec. 29) in 1944 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “”Great works’ (of art) and ‘good works’ (of charity) had better also be Good Work. Let choirs sing well or not at all.” Good Work and …
CSL Daily 12/22
FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce VII” was published today (Dec. 22) in 1944 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I will bring you to the land not of questions but of answers, and you shall see the face of God.” Who Goes Home? or The …
CSL Daily 12/15
FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce VI” was published today (Dec. 15) in 1944 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A jealous man, drifting and unresisting, reaches a point at which he believes lies about his best friend…But errors which are sincere in that sense are …