QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Only the Greatest of all can make Himself small enough to enter Hell. For the higher a thing is, the lower it can descend.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XXIII (Published in The Guardian on 4/13/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: 23rd & final installment of what eventually …
CSL Daily 04/06/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it: or else for ever and ever the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XXII (Published in The …
CSL Daily 03/11/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XVII (Published in The Guardian on 3/2/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On March 11, 1936 Lewis wrote to Charles Williams for …
CSL Daily 03/03/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XVII (Published in The Guardian on 3/2/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis read his paper “The Personal Heresy in Poetics” to …
CSL Daily 02/02/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it already.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XIII (Published in The Guardian on 2/2/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The (often misunderstood) debate between C.S. Lewis and Anscombe …
CSL Daily 01/26/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself…as if the good Lord had nothing to do but exist!” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XII (Published in The Guardian on 1/26/1945) – – – FACT OF …
CSL Daily 01/19/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Ye cannot fully understand the relations of choice and Time till you are beyond both.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XI (Published in The Guardian on 1/19/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The eleventh installment of The Great Divorce was published January 19, 1945; it covered the first quarter of chapter …
CSL Daily 01/14/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.’” The Great Divorce (Published on 1/14/1946) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Great Divorce (complete book) was published on …
CSL Daily 01/12/19
Learn more about the 1st Annual C.S. Lewis Quotathon. QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Could you, only for a moment, fix your mind on something not yourself?” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce X (Published in The Guardian on 1/12/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The tenth installment of The Great Divorce was published on January 12, 1945; …
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. – – –