CSL Daily 09/02/20

  QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If nothing, or nothing we recognise comes through, we imagine [God] has let us down and reject Him, perhaps at the very moment when help was on its way. . .” Letter to Mrs. Lockley on 9/2/1949 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II) – – – FACT OF …

CSL Daily 08/29/20

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Do you place yourself in the obedience,’ said the Director, ‘in obedience to Maleldil?’ ‘Sir,’ said Jane, ‘I know nothing of Maleldil. But I place myself in obedience to you.’ ‘It is enough for the present,’ said the Director. ‘This is the courtesy of Deep Heaven: that when you mean well, …

CSL Daily 08/26/20

  QUOTE OF THE DAY: “In fighting those who serve devils one always has this on one’s side; their Masters hate them as much as they hate us.” That Hideous Strength (Published 8/16/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s father, Albert, was notorious for not liking his routine changed; this quality negatively affected …

CSL Daily 08/02/20

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “God’s presence is not the same as the feeling of God’s presence and He may be doing most for us when we think He is doing least.” Letter to Mary Margaret McCaslin 8/2/1954 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “On the …

CSL Daily 07/29/20

  QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We must, on pain of idiocy, deny from the very outset the idea that looking at is, by its own nature, intrinsically truer or better than looking along. One must look both along and at everything.” Meditation in a Toolshed (Published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph on 7/17/1945) – – – FACT …

CSL Daily 07/24/20

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “You can step outside one experience only by stepping inside another. Therefore, if all inside experiences are misleading, we are always misled.” Meditation in a Toolshed (Published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph on 7/17/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis 1922-27 came out …

CSL Daily 07/17/20

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “You get one experience of a thing when you look along it and another when you look at it.” Meditation in a Toolshed (Published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph on 7/17/1945) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The classic “Meditation in a Toolshed” essay was published on July 17, 1945 in The Coventry …

CSL Daily 06/02/20

  QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The real difficulty is, isn’t it, to adapt ones steady beliefs about tribulation to this particular tribulation; for the particular, when it arrives, always seems so peculiarly intolerable.” Letter to Owen Barfield 6/2/1940 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Membership,” …