FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce V” was published today (Dec. 8) in 1944 in The Guardian. This eventual became part of The Great Divorce. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I do not look at myself. I have given up myself.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce V …
CSL Daily 12/01
FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce IV” was published today (Dec. 1) in 1944 in The Guardian. It’s chapter 3 of The Great Divorce. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It was the light, the grass, the trees that were different; made of some different substance, so much solider …
CSL Daily 11/28
FACT OF THE DAY: The final letter from Screwtape (31st) was printed today (Nov. 28) in 1941 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape bemoans the patient’s fate:] “He got through so easily! No gradual misgivings, no doctor’s sentence, no nursing home, no operating theatre, no false hopes of life; sheer, …
CSL Daily 11/24
FACT OF THE DAY: Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce III was published today (Nov. 24) in 1944 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “‘You mean the evening is really going to turn into a night in the end?’ ‘He nodded.’” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce III (First published …
CSL Daily 11/21
FACT OF THE DAY: The Screwtape Letters – XXX was released today (Nov. 21) in 1941 in The Guardian. It was the next to last one. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: [A Warning to Wormwood]: “You will soon find that the justice of Hell is purely realistic, and concerned only with results. Bring …
CSL Daily 11/17
FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce II” was published today (Nov. 17) in 1944 in The Guardian. It later became part of chapter two of The Great Divorce. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: [About the grey town:] “That’s one of the disappointments. I thought you’d meet interesting …
CSL Daily 11/15
FACT OF THE DAY: On Nov. 14, 1958 Lewis wrote to Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher to accept his invitation to become a member of the Commission to Revise the Psalter. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Despair is a greater sin than any of the sins which provoke it.” The Screwtape Letters – XXIX (First …
CSL Daily 11/14
FACT OF THE DAY: The Screwtape Letters – XXIX: Cowardice was released today (Nov 14) in 1941 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Our research department has not yet discovered (though success is hourly expected) how to produce any virtue. This is a serious handicap. To be greatly and effectively wicked …
CSL Daily 11/13
FACT OF THE DAY: Although previously released in 1991, All My Road Before Me came out in paperback in the US on this date (Nov. 13) in 1992. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Prosperity knits a man to the World. He feels that he is ‘finding his place in it,’ while really it …
CSL Daily 11/07
FACT OF THE DAY: The last month of weekly letters from Screwtape began today (Nov. 7) in 1941 when the 28th letter was published in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[Humans] do tend to regard death as the prime evil and survival as the greatest good. But that is because we …