QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Keep his mind off the most elementary duties by directing it to the most advanced and spiritual ones.” The Screwtape Letters III (Published in The Guardian on 5/16/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On May 16, 1941 the third letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian. – – – Have you …
CSL Daily 05/10/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “You don’t see Nature till you believe in the Supernatural: don’t get the full, hot, salty tang of her except by contrast with the pure water from beyond the world. Those who mistake Nature for the All are just those who can never realise her as a particular creature with …
CSL Daily 05/09/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape boasts:) “All the habits of the patient, both mental and bodily, are still in our favour.” The Screwtape Letters II (Published in The Guardian on 5/9/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The revised edition of Miracles: A Preliminary Study was published May 9, 1960 containing a revised third chapter. – – – …
CSL Daily 05/06/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Christian must wage endless war against the clamour of the ego as ego: but he loves and approves selves as such, though not their sins.” Two Ways with the Self (Published on 5/3/1940 in The Guardian) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Magician’s Nephew took Lewis the longest to …
CSL Daily 05/05/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: Screwtape’s observation of humans: “Thanks to processes which we set at work in them centuries ago, they find it all but impossible to believe in the unfamiliar while the familiar is before their eyes.” The Screwtape Letters I (Published in The Guardian on 5/2/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On May …
CSL Daily 05/03/20
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 and the other right to the end.” Two Ways with the Self (Published on 5/3/1940 in The Guardian) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s article “Two …
CSL Daily 05/01/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us: we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.” Letter to Father Peter Bide on 4/29/1959 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The first of The Screwtape …
CSL Daily 04/25/20
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 till we knew there were any.” Religion and Rocketry (Published as “Will We Lose God in Outer Space” in the April, 1958 issue of Christian Herald) – …
CSL Daily 04/13/20
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 Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XXIII (Published in The Guardian on 4/13/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: 23rd & final installment of what eventually …
CSL Daily 04/06/20
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 makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XXII (Published in The …