“We should mind humiliation less if [we] were humbler.”
Letters to an American Lady
(UK edition published June, 1969)
Fact: June 30, 2013
Lewis was injured at the Battle of Arras in April 1918 while serving in WWI.
Quote: June 29, 2013
“All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy has produced, at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He has forbidden.”
The Screwtape Letters – IX
(first published in The Guardian on 6/27/1941)
Fact: June 29, 2013
The ninth letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian and the end of June (the 27th) in 1941
Quiz: June 29, 2013
What essay from The Weight of Glory was published this month that was a first a talk a few months earlier?
Quiz: June 28, 2013
In The Screwtape Letters where are the young demons initially taught and who leads the place?
Quote: June 28, 2013
Think of yourself just as a seed patiently wintering in the earth; waiting to come up a flower in the Gardener’s good time, up into the real world, the real waking.
Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne
(from Collected Letters, Volume 3 on 6/28/1963)
Fact: June 28, 2013
Lewis received an honorary Doctor of Divinity from the University of St. Andrews on this day in 1946.
Not Reading Four Loves (CSLM-15)
Some people think they hear C.S. Lewis reading his book in the audio product The Four Loves…too bad it isn’t true!
Fact: June 27, 2013
First and Second Things was first published today (27th) in 1942 under the “Notes on the Way” column in Time and Tide.