QUOTE OF THE DAY: “You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.” A Grief Observed (Published 9/29/1961) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: A Grief Observed was published on Sept. 29, 1961, but it wasn’t until after his death that it was …
CSL Daily 05/08/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The process of living seems to consist in coming to realise truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes. They cannot sound otherwise to those who have not had the relevant experience.” Letter to Dom Bede Griffiths OSB on 5/8/1939 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, …
CSL Daily 04/18/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is a curious fact that the advice we can give to others we cannot give to ourselves and truth is more effective through any life rather than our own.” Letter to Sister Penelope (sent 11/19/1941) (First available in Letters of C.S. Lewis published 4/18/1966) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Letters of …
CSL Daily 04/02/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I think we must attack wherever we meet it the nonsensical idea that mutually exclusive propositions about God can both be true.” Christian Apologetics (Talk given sometime around Easter 1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On April 2, 1908 Lewis’s grandfather (Richard Lewis) died. – – – PURCHASE The Misquotable C.S. Lewis
CSL Daily 04/01/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Christianity is a statement which, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important.” Christian Apologetics (Talk given sometime around Easter 1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s review of The Life of Samuel Johnson appeared on April 1, 1962 in Sunday Telegraph under …
CSL Daily 03/21/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of a man he is? Surely what pops out before the man has time to put on a disguise is the truth?” Let’s Pretend (Initially a BBC broadcast from 3/21/44) – – – …
CSL Daily 12/27/18
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce VII (Published in The Guardian on 12/22/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On Dec. 27, 1918 Lewis arrived home unexpectedly in the morning after being demobilized on the 24th. – – –
CSL Daily 10/26/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Poems is a book collecting nearly all of Lewis’s shorter poems that was released on Oct. 26, 1964. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.” Forgiveness (Broadcast on BBC on 10/18/1942; Chapter Seven from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity) Learn …
CSL Daily 09/29/18
FACT OF THE DAY: A Grief Observed was published on Sept. 29, 1961, but it wasn’t until after his death that it was attributed to Lewis. Originally the author was listed as N.W. Clerk. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter …
CSL Daily 05/08/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis was interviewed in May 1963 by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Published later that year and it is in God in the Dock. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The process of living seems to consist in coming to realise truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like …