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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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: [After explaining some weaknesses in a child’s stories:] “I hope you don’t mind me telling you all this? One can learn only by seeing one’s mistakes. Letter to Joan Lancaster on 8/31/1958 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Poem “Vowels …
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: …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Our relation to those who trusted us only after we were proved innocent in court cannot be the same as our relation to those who trusted us all through.” On Obstinacy In Belief (Published in Screwtape Proposes a Toast on 1/4/1965) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The poem “On Another …
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: [After explaining some weaknesses in a child’s stories:] “I hope you don’t mind me telling you all this? One can learn only by seeing one’s mistakes. Letter to Joan Lancaster on 8/31/1958 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Poem “Vowels …
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: …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Our relation to those who trusted us only after we were proved innocent in court cannot be the same as our relation to those who trusted us all through.” On Obstinacy In Belief (Published in Screwtape Proposes a Toast on 1/4/1965) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The poem “On Another Theme …
FACT OF THE DAY: Originally an unsigned review, Lewis’s views on The Hobbit was published on Oct. 2, 1937 in The Times Literary Supplement. – – – 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 …
