QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Think of humanity as a band playing a tune. To get a good result, you need two things. Each player’s individual instrument must be in tune and also each must come in at the right moment so as to combine with all the others.” The Three Parts of Morality (Broadcast on …
CSL Daily 04/19/20
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Hope…a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think) a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.” Christian Behaviour (Published 4/19/1943) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Christian Behaviour was first published on April 19, …
CSL Daily 11/08/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There are a great many things [in Christianity] that cannot be understood until after you have gone a certain distance along the Christian road.” Faith (Given as a talk on the BBC on November 8, 1942 and later published as chapter 12 in Christian Behavior) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: …
CSL Daily 10/29/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Nearly all those evils in the world which people put down to greed or selfishness are really far more the result of Pride.” The Great Sin (Broadcast on BBC on 10/25/1942; Chapter Eight from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On Oct. 29, 1935 Oxford University …
CSL Daily 10/28/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.” The Great Sin (Broadcast on BBC on 10/25/1942; Chapter Eight from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Talking about Bicycles,” one of Lewis’s shorter works was …
CSL Daily 10/26/19
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) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: Poems is a book collecting nearly all of Lewis’s shorter poems. It was released on Oct. 26, 1964. …
CSL Daily 10/25/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison…[pride] is the complete anti-God state of mind.” The Great Sin (Broadcast on BBC on 10/25/1942; Chapter Eight from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The sixth talk from the third BBC radio series …
CSL Daily 10/11/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Christian rule is, ‘Either marriage, with complete faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence.’ Now this is so difficult and so contrary to our instincts, that obviously either Christianity is wrong or our sexual instinct, as it now is, has gone wrong.” Sexual Morality (Broadcast on BBC on …
CSL Daily 10/05/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him.” (Broadcast on BBC on 10/4/1942; Chapter four (Morality and Psychoanalysis) from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On Oct. 5, 1954 The Horse and His Boy …
CSL Daily 09/28/19
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[Christianity] was never intended to replace or supersede the ordinary human arts and sciences: it is rather a director which will set them all to the right jobs, and a source of energy which will give them all new life, if only they will put themselves at its disposal.” Social …