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 of that he has them, but this is specially true of humility.” The Screwtape Letters XIV (Published in The Guardian on 8/1/1941) – – – FACT …
CSL Daily 08/01/20
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 of the world’s population had it, would not the whole world be converted and happy before a year’s end?” Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne 8/1/1953 (Published in The …
CSL Daily 07/25/20
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 little vermin, and sets an absurd value on the distinctiveness of every one of them.” The Screwtape Letters XIII (Published in The Guardian on 7/25/1941) – – …
CSL Daily 07/18/20
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 that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing.” The …
CSL Daily 07/14/20
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 practice it.” The Screwtape Letters XI (Published in The Guardian on 7/11/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Imagination and Thought in the Middle Ages” is a talk …
90 Sec Special #6 – REAL Screwtape Facts (YouTube)
Here’s the sixth special episode of my 90 second YouTube show. It briefly shares some FACTS related to The Screwtape Letters. – – – Books mentioned in this episode: Join the Confirming C.S. Lewis Quotations Group Join the 90 Seconds to Knowing C.S. Lewis FB group The Screwtape Letters The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition The …
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CSL Daily 07/08/20
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 is His only Son.” Mere Christianity (Published in 7/7/1952) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis first used the term “Mere Christianity” in The …
CSL Daily 07/05/20
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 and unhealthy interest in them.” from Preface to The Screwtape Letters (Written 7/5/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: …
CSL Daily 07/04/20
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) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The tenth installment of The Screwtape Letters was published on July 4, 1941 in The Guardian. …
90 Sec Special #5 – Fake C.S. Lewis SCREWTAPE Quotes (YouTube)
Here’s the fifth special episode of my 90 second YouTube show. It VERY briefly tells about THREE passages that falsely claim to be from The Screwtape Letters. – – – Books mentioned in this episode: Join the Confirming C.S. Lewis Quotations Group Join the 90 Seconds to Knowing C.S. Lewis FB group The Screwtape Letters C.S. …
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