QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It was the light, the grass, the trees that were different; made of some different substance, so much solider than things in our country that men were ghosts by comparison.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce IV (Published in The Guardian on 12/1/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes …
CSL Daily 11/28/20
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, instantaneous liberation.” The Screwtape Letters – XXXI (First published in The Guardian on 11/28/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The final letter from …
CSL Daily 11/24/20
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 in The Guardian on 11/24/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce III was published on Nov. 24, 1944 in The …
CSL Daily 11/21/20
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 us back food, or be food yourself.” The Screwtape Letters – XXX (First published in The Guardian on 11/21/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Screwtape Letters – XXX was …
CSL Daily 11/17/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: [About the grey town:] “That’s one of the disappointments. I thought you’d meet interesting historical characters. But you don’t: they’re too far away.” “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce II” (First published in The Guardian on 11/17/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce II” …
CSL Daily 11/15/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Suggests:) “Despair is a greater sin than any of the sins which provoke it.” The Screwtape Letters – XXIX (First published in The Guardian on 11/14/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On Nov. 14, 1958 Lewis wrote to Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher to accept his invitation to become a member of …
CSL Daily 11/14/20
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 a man needs some virtue.” The Screwtape Letters – XXIX (First published in The Guardian on 11/14/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The …
CSL Daily 11/13/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Proclaims:) “Prosperity knits a man to the World. He feels that he is ‘finding his place in it,’ while really it is finding its place in him.” The Screwtape Letters – XXVIII (First published in The Guardian on 11/7/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Although previously released in 1991, All My Road …
CSL Daily 11/07/20
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 have taught them to do so. Do not let us be infected by our own propaganda.” The Screwtape Letters – XXVIII (First published in The Guardian on 11/7/1941) – – – FACT …
CSL Daily 10/31/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Admits:) “Anything, even a sin, which has the total effect of moving him close up to the Enemy [i.e. God], makes against us in the long run.” The Screwtape Letters – XXVII – The Historical Point of View (First published in The Guardian on 10/31/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: …