February 2
In letters to an American Lady, Lewis responds to a letter that [presumably] relates a story about job-hunting and the difficulty that comes with that. Lewis muses:
"I suppose – tho' the person who is not suffering feels shy about saying it to the person who is – that it is good for us to be cured of the illusion of "independence". For of course independence, the state of being indebted to no one, is eternally impossible. Who, after all, is more totally dependent than what we call the man "of independent means". Every shirt he wears is made by other people out of other organisms and the only difference between him and us is that even the money whereby he pays for it was earned by other people." ~Letters to an American Lady, CS Lewis, P20
February 3
Speaking on the subject of glory:
"The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasms that yawns between us and reality, is part of our inconsolable secret. And surely, from this point of view, the promise of glory, in the sense described, becomes highly relevant to our deep desire. For glory means good report with God, acceptance by God, response, acknowledgement, and welcome into the heart of things. The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last." ~Weight of Glory, p40-41
February 4
On Christian behavior and morality:
"Morality, then, seems to be concerned with three things. Firstly, with fair play and harmony between individuals. Secondly, with what might be called tidying up or harmonizing the things inside each individual. Thirdly, with the general purpose of human life as a whole: what man was made for: what course the whole fleet ought to be on: what tune the conductor of the band wants it to play." ~Mere Christianity, CS Lewis, Book 3, p67
February 5
The Senior Devil's advice to a junior on how to allow Christianity in the life of his target. He says:
"What we want, if men become Christians at all, is to keep them in the state of mind I call 'Christianity And'. You know – Christianity and the Crisis,…. Christianity and Physical Research…. If they must be Christians let them at least be Christians with a difference. Substitute for the faith itself some Fashion with a Christian colouring. Work on their horror of the Same Old Thing." ~The Screwtape Letters, CS Lewis, Ch25 p257
