FACT OF THE DAY: “Good Work and Good Works” by Lewis was published in the Christmas 1959 issue of Good Work (formerly Catholic Art Quarterly). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The apostle says every one must not only work but work to produce what is ‘good.’” Good Work and Good Works (Published in …
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FACT OF THE DAY: “Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce VII” was published today (12/22) in 1944 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I will bring you to the land not of questions but of answers, and you shall see the face of God.” Who Goes Home? or The Grand …
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The following is part of a series reflecting on the life of C.S. Lewis. This is accomplished by summarizing various events or happenings during his lifetime for the noted period and may include significant events related to him after his death. Highlights for the final third of December (21st – 31st) include: An essay about …
FACT OF THE DAY: “We Have No ‘Right to Happiness’” was first published in the December 21-28, 1963 edition of The Saturday Evening Post. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We depend for a very great deal of our happiness or misery on circumstances outside all human control. A right to happiness doesn’t, for …
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FACT OF THE DAY: Letters to an American Lady was first released on December 19, 1967 and at the time the name of the lady wasn’t revealed. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing … it is irresistible. If …
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FACT OF THE DAY: “Screwtape Proposes a Toast” first appeared today (12/19) in 1959 in The Saturday Evening Post. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Democracy is the word with which you must lead them by the nose. The good work which our philological experts have already done in the corruption of human language makes …
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FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s review of A Lectionary of Christian Prose from the Second Century to the Twentieth Century was published in Theology, December ’39. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Can it really be my duty to buy and receive masses of junk every winter just to help the shopkeepers? If the …
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FACT OF THE DAY: “What Christmas Means to Me” was published in the December, 1957 issue of Twentieth Century magazine. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The idea that not only all friends but even all acquaintances should give one another presents, or at least send one another cards, is quite modern and has …
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FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis mentioned “Tolkien’s unfinished sequel to the Hobbit” in the preface of Essays Presented to Charles Williams (a book Lewis edited and published in 1947). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Of all passions the passion for the Inner Ring is most skillful in making a man who is not …
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Some Lewis readers are unaware that he wrote poetry (or at best are uninterested in it). Dr. Don King, editor of The Collected Poems of C.S. Lewis: A Critical Edition, believes such individuals are missing out on not only gaining a better understanding of the author, but they are also depriving themselves of some great writings. William …
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