NOTE: As you may have noticed, this CSL Daily has been updated less frequently recently. This has been due in part to some hosting issues that should now be resolved. HOWEVER, even though this is fixed, I’ve decided to DISCONTINUE this feature at the end of this year. You will still be able to visit …
CSL Daily 12/16/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Of all passions the passion for the Inner Ring is most skillful in making a man who is not yet a very bad man do very bad things.” The Inner Ring (Talk given on 12/14/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis mentioned, “Tolkien’s unfinished sequel to the …
CSL Daily 12/15/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A jealous man, drifting and unresisting, reaches a point at which he believes lies about his best friend…But errors which are sincere in that sense are not innocent.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce VI (Published in The Guardian on 12/15/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes Home? or …
CSL Daily 12/14/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous.” The Inner Ring (Talk given on 12/14/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis gave the annual Commemoration Oration at King’s College on Dec. 14, 1944. His topic was “The Inner Ring.” – – …
CSL Daily 12/08/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I do not look at myself. I have given up myself.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce V (Published in The Guardian on 12/8/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce V” was published on Dec. 8, 1944 in The Guardian. This eventually became part of …
CSL Daily 12/01/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It was the light, the grass, the trees that were different; made of some different substance, so much solider than things in our country that men were ghosts by comparison.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce IV (Published in The Guardian on 12/1/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes …
CSL Daily 11/24/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “‘You mean the evening is really going to turn into a night in the end?’ ‘He nodded.’” Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce III (First published in The Guardian on 11/24/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce III was published on Nov. 24, 1944 in The …
CSL Daily 11/17/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: [About the grey town:] “That’s one of the disappointments. I thought you’d meet interesting historical characters. But you don’t: they’re too far away.” “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce II” (First published in The Guardian on 11/17/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce II” …
CSL Daily 11/06/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We are taught from childhood to notice how the perfect oak grows from the acorn and to forget that the acorn itself was dropped by a perfect oak.” Is Theology Poetry? (Talk given on 11/6/1944 to Socratic Club) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Is Theology Poetry?” was a paper …
CSL Daily 10/09/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world.” Nice People or New Men (Chapter 10 of Beyond Personality; published 10/9/1944) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Beyond Personality: The Christian Idea of God was published on Oct. 9, 1944; from the …