FACT OF THE DAY: Although previously released in 1991, All My Road Before Me came out in paperback in the US on Nov. 13, 1992. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “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 …
CSL Daily 11/07/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The last month of weekly letters from Screwtape began on Nov. 7, 1941 when the 28th letter was published in The Guardian. – – – 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 …
The Halloween Screwtape Letter!? (Re-Post)
The following is a revised piece from what I shared previously. It was on Oct. 31, 1941 that the 27th letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian. The following year it came out in the UK in the book The Screwtape Letters (1943 for the US). While there is no material directly related to Halloween in …
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CSL Daily 10/31/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The 27th Screwtape Letter was published on Oct. 31, 1941 in The Guardian. Its subtitle was “The Historical Point of View.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “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 …
(CCSLQ-40) – Next Moment
The following is part of a series exploring quotations attributed to C.S. Lewis that are questionable for one reason or another. As I near the publication of an untitled book on the subject, it is difficult to say how often I will post additional material (even though over 30 more quotes have been identified). That …
CSL Daily 10/24/17
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: “Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years later into domestic hatred.” The Screwtape Letters – XXVI – The Generous …
CSL Daily 10/17/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The 25th Screwtape Letter was published today in 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, but …
CSL Daily 10/10/17
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 10/03/17
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: “The earliest converts were converted by a single historical fact (the Resurrection) and a single theological doctrine (the …
CSL Daily 9/26/17
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: “Everything has to be twisted before it’s any use to us.” The Screwtape Letters – XXII (First published …