QUOTE OF THE DAY: “…Good images of what we really desire…the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.” The Weight of Glory (Sermon preached on 6/8/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: An expanded …
CSL Daily 06/11/19
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: …
CSL Daily 06/08/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The New Testament has lots to say about self-denial, but not about self-denial as an end in itself.” The Weight of Glory (Sermon preached on 6/8/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “The Weight of Glory,” Lewis’s most famous sermon was preached on June 8, 1941 at St. Mary the Virgin …
CSL Daily 05/29/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[God] made His own plan or plot of history such that it admits a certain amount of free play and can be modified in response to our prayers.” Work and Prayer (Published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph on 5/28/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Transposition is a sermon Lewis preached on …
CSL Daily 02/11/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “To find that one’s emotions do not ‘come to heel’ and line up as stable sentiments in permanent conformity with one’s convictions is simply the facts of being a fallen, and still imperfectly redeemed, man.” Letter to Michael Edwardson 2/11/1960 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – …
CSL Daily 02/10/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together.” Membership (Talk given on 2/10/1945; now found in The Weight of Glory) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The World’s Last Night collection of essays book was first published on February 10, 1960. Lewis also gave a talk now known as “Membership” today in 1945. …
CSL Daily 11/04/18
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The load, or weight, or burden of my neighbor’s glory should be laid daily on my back, a load so heavy that only humility can carry it, and the backs of the proud will be broken.” The Weight of Glory (Published in November, 1941 issue of Theology) – – – FACT OF …
CSL Daily 09/13/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The Weight of Glory was published in the U.S. on September 13, 1949, and later updated in 1980. It was first released under the title Transposition in the U.K. in 1949. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek …
CSL Daily 07/06/18
FACT OF THE DAY: The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C.S. Lewis was published on July 5, 1984 and was edited by Walter Hooper. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who …
CSL Daily 06/21/18
FACT OF THE DAY: An Expostulation (against too many writers of science fiction) – a poem from Lewis was published in the June, 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Glory, as Christianity teaches me to hope for it, turns out to satisfy my original desire …