FACT OF THE DAY: The 26th Screwtape Letter was published on Oct. 24, 1941 in The Guardian. The subtitle was “The Generous Conflict Illusion.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape Notes:] “Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years later into domestic hatred.” The Screwtape Letters – XXVI – …
CSL Daily 10/17/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The 25th Screwtape Letter was published on October 17, 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 course, …
CSL Daily 10/10/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The 24th letter from Screwtape was published on Oct. 10, 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 are too well …
CSL Daily 10/03/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The 23rd letter from Screwtape was published on Oct. 3, 1941 in The Guardian. It was the first one with a subtitle, which was “The Historical Jesus.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Admits:) “The earliest converts were converted by a single historical fact (the Resurrection) and a single theological …
CSL Daily 09/26/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The 22nd Screwtape letter was published on September 26, 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: (Screwtape Complains:) “Everything has to be twisted before it’s any use to us [devils].” The Screwtape Letters – XXII …
CSL Daily 09/25/18
FACT OF THE DAY: On September 25, 1929 Lewis’ father (Albert) died. His financial support was vital to Lewis getting his degrees at Oxford. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Observes:) “Men are not angered by mere misfortune but by misfortune conceived as injury.” The Screwtape Letters – XXI (First published in The Guardian on …
CSL Daily 09/12/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The 20th letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian on September 12, 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].” The Screwtape …
CSL Daily 08/30/18
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: (Screwtape Reveals:) “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 08/22/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The 17th letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian today (Aug. 22) in 1941. It dealt with gluttony in a unique way. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Boasts:) “One of the great, achievements of the last hundred years has been to deaden the human conscience on [gluttony], …
CSL Daily 08/15/18
FACT OF THE DAY: A previously unpublished essay by Lewis was the lead title piece in Christian Reunion published on August 15, 1990. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Advises:) “Surely you know that if a man can’t be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking …