Below you’ll see seven quotes selected from a variety of Lewis’s works over the years that are related to this week (or month). There is also a special video version of this for my YouTube channel, Knowing and Understanding C.S. Lewis, and an audio-only version via my podcast, All About Jack. Direct links to each version are …
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It’s no secret that C.S. Lewis was friends with J.R.R. Tolkien (unless you didn’t know). Did you also know that Lewis read what we now know as The Hobbit several years before it was published in 1937?! This year (2202) makes the 85th anniversary of its publication, so it seemed fitting to highlight some of the …
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Welcome to Weekly Dose of C.S. Lewis Quotes! Each week I’m sharing quotes that originally were selected for what was once a daily feature on this site. I had retired that feature after repeating it for several years but decided to update the graphic and make it a weekly feature. Speaking of features, I’m also …
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Of all passions the passion for the Inner Ring is most skillful in making a man who is not yet a very bad man do very bad things.” The Inner Ring (Talk given on 12/14/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis mentioned, “Tolkien’s unfinished sequel to the …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Hobbit…will be funniest to its youngest readers, and only years later, at a tenth or a twentieth reading, will they begin to realise what deft scholarship and profound reflection have gone to make everything in it so ripe, so friendly, and in its own way so true.” A World …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If we are made for heaven, the desire for our proper place will be already in us, but not yet attached to the true object, and will even appear as the rival of that object.” The Weight of Glory (Sermon preached on 6/8/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: …
Here’s the sixth regular episode of my 90 second YouTube show. The focus is on the fact that Lewis read Tolkien’s The Hobbit years before it was published. – – – Mentioned in this episode: Join the 90 Seconds to Knowing C.S. Lewis FB group The Hobbit The Lord of the Rings (one-volume edition) The Letters of …
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Since term began I have had a delightful time reading a children’s story which Tolkien has just written.” Letter to Arthur Greeves on 2/4/1933 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On February 4, 1933 Lewis wrote to his friend Arthur Greeves about reading a …
Here’s something new I’m doing…a 90 second YouTube “show” to help people briefly learn about significant events in the life of C.S. Lewis. I plan to release something new each week. Hopefully, it will eventually be a book with 365 entries. Note the text version of the show is below, WITH footnotes! Met J. R. …
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Of all passions the passion for the Inner Ring is most skillful in making a man who is not yet a very bad man do very bad things.” The Inner Ring (Talk given on 12/14/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis mentioned, “Tolkien’s unfinished sequel to the …
