FACT OF THE DAY: The 15th letter from Screwtape was published on August 8, 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, to eternity …
CSL Daily 08/05/18
FACT OF THE DAY: “Invocation of Saints” is a letter published on August 5, 1949 in Church Times and is now in God in the Dock. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape advises:] “You must therefore conceal from the patient the true end of Humility. Let him think of it not as self-forgetfulness but as a certain …
CSL Daily 08/04/18
FACT OF THE DAY: On August 4, 1922 Lewis earned a first class (highest honors) degree in Literae Humaniores (“Greats”) from Oxford. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape advises:] “Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware …
CSL Daily 08/01/18
FACT OF THE DAY: On August 1, 1941 the 14th letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian before being available 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 ten per cent …
CSL Daily 07/25/18
FACT OF THE DAY: On July 25, 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, that he really likes the …
CSL Daily 07/18/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The twelfth letter from Screwtape was published on July 18, 1941 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Proudly States:) “The only thing that matters is the extent to which you separate the man from the Enemy [God]. It does not matter how small the sins are provided …
CSL Daily 07/14/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Imagination and Thought in the Middle Ages is a talk Lewis gave on two nights in 1956, July 17th and 18th. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[Flippancy] is a thousand miles away from joy; it deadens, instead of sharpening, the intellect; and it excites no affection between those who …
CSL Daily 07/08/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis first used the term “Mere Christianity” in The Screwtape Letters #25; initially published Oct. 17, 1941 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Our divisions should never be discussed except in the presence of those who have already come to believe that there is one God and that Jesus Christ …
CSL Daily 07/05/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis wrote his preface to the first edition of The Screwtape Letters on July 5, 1941. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There are two equal and opposite errors into which can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive …
CSL Daily 07/04/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The tenth installment of The Screwtape Letters was published on July 4, 1941 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape commenting on the patient faking cynical and skeptical attitudes): “All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.” The Screwtape Letters X (Published in The Guardian on 7/4/1941) …