FACT OF THE DAY: The first paperback edition of The Silver Chair came out today (6/24) in 1965 (first published 9/7/53). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The simple physical pains and (still more) the pleasures can’t be expressed in language. I labour the point lest the devil should hereafter try to make you …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 6/23
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s poem “Vitrea Circe” was published in Punch, today (6/23) in 1948) and was revised and reprinted in Poems. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Admits:) “Prayers offered in the state of dryness are those which please Him (God) best.” The Screwtape Letters VIII (Published in The Guardian on 6/20/1941) – – …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 6/22
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis showed the galley proofs for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe to the Inklings on this day (6/22) in 1950. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is not really you who are holding fast to Him but He to you: and He will bring you to wherever …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 6/21
FACT OF THE DAY: An Expostulation (against too many writers of science fiction) – a poem from June, 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Glory, as Christianity teaches me to hope for it, turns out to satisfy my original desire and indeed to reveal …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 6/20
FACT OF THE DAY: The eighth Screwtape letter was published in The Guardian today (6/20) in 1941. It has the first mention of Slubgob. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Admits:) “One must face the fact that all the talk about His love for men, and His service being perfect freedom, is not …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 6/19
FACT OF THE DAY: An expanded version of “Bulverism” by Lewis was printed in the June, 1944 issue of The Socratic Digest. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “…Good images of what we really desire…the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 6/18
FACT OF THE DAY: Daily Readings with C.S. Lewis came out on this day (6/18) in 1992. It was republished as C.S. Lewis: Readings for Meditation and Reflection. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 6/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The paperback edition of The Personal Heresy by Lewis (with E.M.W. Tillyard) was published today (6/17) in 1965. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. Remember, though we struggle against things because we are afraid of them, it is often the …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 6/16
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s brother, Warren “Warnie” Hamilton Lewis was born today (6/16) in 1895. He wrote books on French History. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We want the Church to be small not only that fewer men may know the Enemy but also that those who do may acquire the uneasy …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 6/15
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s appointment at Magdalen College at Oxford officially began on this day (6/15) in 1925 and lasted there three decades. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself— to dream that you have waked, …