“To nearly all ancient men, and to many medieval men, friendship seemed the most valuable and the most completely human of all natural loves. It was for them the crown of life and the school of virtues.”
“Philia – Part I: Talk Three”
(Recorded 8/19/1958; Text was later adapted in The Four Loves)
Month: August 2013
QUIZ: August 19, 2013
Which Narnia book is this quote found? “There was once a boy named Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”
FACT: August 19, 2013
Lewis began recording today in 1958 the first half of a 10-part radio series on four types of love (that later was expanded to become The Four Love book).
QUOTE: August 18, 2013
“I think God wants us to love Him more, not to love creatures (even animals) less.”
Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne
(from Collected Letters, Volume 3 on 8/18/1956)
FACT: August 18, 2013
“Solomon,” a poem by Lewis was published in the August 14, 1946 issue of Punch.
QUIZ: August 18, 2013
Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“If nothing is self-evident, nothing _____ _____ _____ .”
QUIZ: August 17, 2013
A new edition of what non-fiction book was published this month?
QUOTE: August 17, 2013
“There is still life in the tradition which the Middle Ages inaugurated. But the maintenance of that life depends, in part, on knowing that the knightly character is art not nature—something that needs to be achieved, not something that can be relied upon to happen.”
The Necessity of Chivalry
(Published in Time and Tide on 8/17/1940)
FACT: August 17, 2013
The essay now known as “The Necessity of Chivalry” was first published today in 1940 in Time and Tide.
QUOTE: August 16, 2013
“There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there’s never more than one.”
That Hideous Strength
(Published 8/16/1945