CSL Daily 04/06/20

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 02/06/20

  QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.” The Shocking Alternative (Given as a talk on the BBC on 2/1/1942) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: The Magician’s Nephew took Lewis the longest to …

CSL Daily 12/26/19

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “In this world everything is upside down. That which, if it could be prolonged here, would be a truancy, is likest that which in a better country is the End of ends. Joy is the serious business of Heaven.” Beyond the Bright Blur (Published 12/25/1963; chapter 17 of Letters to Malcolm) – …

CSL Daily 07/14/19

  QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[Flippancy] is a thousand miles away from joy; it deadens, instead of sharpening, the intellect; and it excites no affection between those who practice it.” The Screwtape Letters XI (Published in The Guardian on 7/11/1941) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: “Imagination and Thought in the Middle Ages” is a talk …

CSL Daily 05/04/19

  QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Yes— it is sometimes hard to obey St. Paul’s ‘Rejoice.’ We must try to take life moment by moment. The actual present is usually pretty tolerable, I think, if only we refrain from adding to its burden that of the past and the future.” Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne on 5/4/1962 …

CSL Daily 04/20/19

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Every joy is beyond all others. The fruit we are eating is always the best fruit of all.” Perelandra (Published 4/20/1943) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On April 20, 1942 is when Perelandra was published. It tells of adventures on Venus. – – – PURCHASE The Misquotable C.S. Lewis