Author: William OFlaherty

Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 6th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

“Christianity and Culture” appeared in the March 1940 issue of Theology, but someone replied to it that lead Lewis to comment further.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Once we have accepted an omniscient & providential God, the distinction we used to draw between the significant and the fortuitous must either break down or be restated in some v. much subtler form.”

Letter to Sheldon Vanauken 3/6/1955
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

How many books are there in The Chronicle of Narnia series?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 5th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Today (3/5) in 1908, when Lewis was just 9, he recorded in his diary that he had read Paradise Lost.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility.”

Christianity and Culture
(Published in March 1940 in Theology)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (5 words):
“It is no use to ask God with facetious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with B. We must lay before Him what is in us not _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ .”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 4th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C.S. Lewis became available for the first time today (3/4) in 1968.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“I believe no angel ever appears in Scripture without exciting terror: they always have to begin by saying “Fear not.”

Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne 3/4/1953
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Name the author who Lewis claims baptized his imagination in his teens.
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 3rd

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Lewis read his paper “The Personal Heresy in Poetics” to a group known as the Martlets on this day (3/3) in 1930.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.”

Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XVII
(Published in The Guardian on 3/2/1945)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Who did Lewis read two chapters of what Narnia book before it was published this month in what year?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 2nd

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

“Memory of Sir Walter Scott” was a talk Lewis gave on this date (3/2) in 1956.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“What we practise, not (save at rare intervals) what we preach, is usually our great contribution to the conversion of others.”

Letter to Mrs. Johnson 3/2/1955
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (4 words):
“Until you conquer the fear of being ___ ___, ___ ____ you will remain.” (submitted by Winifred Sherman)
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RETROSPECT: March 1st – 11th

William OFlaherty Jack in Retrospect, Special Feature

Highlights for the first third of March (1st – 11th) include: First book collecting quotations and shorter passages, how Charles Williams became a friend and a former student previews The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Less than five years after C.S. Lewis died a collection containing brief excerpts from a wide range of his writings came out on the 4th of March in 1968. A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C.S. Lewis would be the first of many books featuring quotations or shorter selections. This debut work was edited by Clyde S. Kilby, the person who began what we know today as The Marion E. Wade Center. The book is arranged into ten major sections and nearly all of those divisions are further divided into sub-themes.

Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 1st

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Of Lewis’s two pre-Christian books of poetry, only Dymer was republished during his lifetime.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The one really adequate instrument for learning about God is the whole Christian community.”

The Three-Personal God
(Initially a BBC broadcast from 2/29/44)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Lewis wrote a preface to Philip’s Letters to Young Churches in 1947. What is the title given to it when it appeared in a collection with other of Lewis’ essays?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: February 28th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

The Dark Tower and Other Stories was published on this day (2/28) in 1977.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“If a man’s self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred.”

The Three-Personal God
(Initially a BBC broadcast from 2/29/44)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

In Till We Have Faces what is Glome?
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The Marion E. Wade Center

William OFlaherty Resource Spotlight

Originally known as “The C.S. Lewis Collection,” this resource, now goes by “The Marion E. Wade Center” is a lot more than an online destination. However because it does have a good variety of material in addition to what’s available at their physical location at Wheaton College I felt it worth putting in the spotlight. Both locations are devoted to not just Lewis, but also six other British authors (Owen Barfield, G.K. Chesterton, George MacDonald, Dorothy L. Sayers, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams).

Fact / Quote / Quiz: February 27th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

The Screwtape Letters and Screwtape Proposes a Toast was published today (2/27) in 1961 and contained a new preface.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite…Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.”

The Screwtape Letters and Screwtape Proposes a Toast
(From new preface first published on 2/27/1961)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Which Narnia book is the following passage from and who said it:
“A boy in the street made a beastly joke about Queen Susan…so I knocked him down. He ran howling into a house and his big brother came out. So I knocked the big brother down.”
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