FACT OF THE DAY: The 27th Screwtape Letter was published today (Oct. 31) in 1941 in The Guardian. Its subtitle was “The Historical Point of View.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Anything, even a sin, which has the total effect of moving him close up to the Enemy [i.e. God], makes against us …
CSL Daily 10/24
FACT OF THE DAY: The 26th Screwtape Letter was published today (Oct. 24) in 1941 in The Guardian. Its subtitle was “The Generous Conflict Illusion.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years later into domestic hatred.” The Screwtape Letters – XXVI – The …
CSL Daily 10/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The 25th Screwtape Letter was published today in 1941 in The Guardian. Its subtitle was “The Enemy Loves Platitudes.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape Complains:] “The real trouble about the set your patient is living in is that it is merely Christian. They all have individual interests, of …
CSL Daily 10/10
FACT OF THE DAY: The 24th letter from Screwtape was published today (Oct. 10) in 1941 in The Guardian. The theme was Spiritual Pride. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape laments:] “If you try to make him explicitly and professedly proud of being a Christian, you will probably fail; the Enemy’s [God’s] warnings …
CSL Daily 9/26
FACT OF THE DAY: The 22nd Screwtape letter was published today (Sept. 26) in 1941 in The Guardian (before being release in 1942 as a single book). It’s the only one signed by Toadpipe. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Everything has to be twisted before it’s any use to us.” The Screwtape Letters – XXII …
CSL Daily 9/12
FACT OF THE DAY: The 20th letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian today (9/12) in 1941. The main topic is sexual temptation. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape Boasts:] “Our best weapon—the belief of ignorant humans, that there is no hope of getting rid of us except by yielding [to temptation].” …
CSL Daily 8/30
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: “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 8/08
FACT OF THE DAY: The 15th letter from Screwtape was published today (Aug. 8) in 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, …
CSL Daily 8/01
FACT OF THE DAY: Today (8/1) in 1941 the 14th letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian before being 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 …
CSL Daily 7/25
FACT OF THE DAY: On this day (7/25) in 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, …