FACT OF THE DAY: 23rd & final installment of what eventually became part of The Great Divorce was published today (4/13) in The Guardian in 1945. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Only the Greatest of all can make Himself small enough to enter Hell. For the higher a thing is, the lower it …
Month: April 2015
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 4/12
FACT OF THE DAY: Lilies that Fester by Lewis was published this month in 1955 in Twentieth Century and is available in The World’s Last Night. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The more we get what we now call ‘ourselves’ out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 4/11
FACT OF THE DAY: Letters to Children was published on this day (4/11) in 1985, but its content can be found in the Collected Letters released in the 2000’s. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “To become new men means losing what we now call ‘ourselves’. Out of our selves, into Christ, we must …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 4/10
FACT OF THE DAY: Nearly ten years after Lewis’s death, his older brother, Warnie, died this month (yesterday the 9th) in 1973 (at the age of 77). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[God] can’t be used as a road. If you’re approaching Him not as the goal but as a road, not as …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 4/9
FACT OF THE DAY: Today (4/9) in 1941 Lewis gave his first Royal Air Force (RAF) talk at RAF Abingdon, Berkshire, England. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Those who stand outside all judgements of value cannot have any ground for preferring one of their own impulses to another except the emotional strength of …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 4/8
FACT OF THE DAY: On this date (4/8) in 1947 the first U.S. edition (a hardback) of The Abolition of Man was published. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Who said I disliked women? I never liked or disliked any generalisation.” Letter to Margaret Fuller on 4/8/1948 (Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 4/7
FACT OF THE DAY: Another edition (a paperback) of A Grief Observed was published on this date (4/7) in 1966. It was first published in 1961. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I gave these talks, not because I am anyone in particular, but because I was asked to do so.” Preface to Broadcast Talks …
Not Quite Lewis – Podcast Version (William O’Flaherty)
C.S. Lewis wrote many statements that standalone as great short quotations. However, some quotes when isolated from their context are actually problematic. That is, apart from their setting they often yield a very different understanding of what Lewis meant. Then there are quotes attributed to Lewis that are actually a incorrect paraphrase of something he …
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Not Quite Lewis – Questionable Lewisian Quotations (Conf. Paper)
The following is the text of the talk given by William O’Flaherty on “Not Quite Lewis: Questionable Lewisian Quotations) at the 2015 CSLIS Conference in late March, 2015. If you want to hear the audio (podcast) version you can visit this direct link. Not Quite Lewis: Questionable Lewisian Quotations Several books, like The Quotable …
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: 4/6
FACT OF THE DAY: 22nd installment of what eventually became part of The Great Divorce was published today (4/6) in The Guardian in 1945. – – – 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 …