FACT OF THE DAY: On this day (6/4) in 1954 Lewis accepted the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape Advises Wormwood:) “Do not allow any temporary excitement to distract you from the real business of undermining faith and preventing the formation of virtues.” The Screwtape …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 6/3
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis wrote to Hila Newman, an eleven-year-old, on this date (6/3) in 1953 giving her clues about “Aslan’s other name” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “After all, almost the main work of life is to come out of our selves, out of the little, dark prison we are all …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 6/2
FACT OF THE DAY: “Membership,” a talk by Lewis given four months earlier, was published in the June, 1945 issue of Sobornost. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The real difficulty is, isn’t it, to adapt ones steady beliefs about tribulation to this particular tribulation; for the particular, when it arrives, always seems so …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 6/1
FACT OF THE DAY: Is History Bunk? by Lewis was first published today (6/1) in 1957 in The Cambridge Review. It’s reprinted in Present Concerns. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There will always be those who, on discovering that history cannot really be turned to much practical account, will pronounce history to be …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 5/31
FACT OF THE DAY: Today (5/31) in 1951 Lewis was having dinner with Roger Lancelyn Green and it was on this occasion that he asked him to be his biographer. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I take our emotional life to be ‘higher’ than the life of our sensations – not, of course, …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 5/30
FACT OF THE DAY: The fifth Screwtape letter was published today (5/30) in The Guardian in 1941. It talked about Wormwood failing in his duties because of relying on anxiety caused by a war. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: (Screwtape on the Dangers of War:) “One of our best weapons, contented worldiness, is …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 5/29
FACT OF THE DAY: Transposition is a sermon Lewis preached on 5/28/1944 at the chapel of Mansfield College. The text is in The Weight of Glory. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[God] made His own plan or plot of history such that it admits a certain amount of free play and can be …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 5/28
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis wrote to Sister Penelope today (5/28) in 1945 stating that his book on Miracles was already finished (it came out 5/12/1947). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I quite agree with you about not using one’s job for propaganda: but once the pupil raises the question I think one …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 5/27
FACT OF THE DAY: “Work and Prayer” is an essay published this month in the May 28, 1945 edition of The Coventry Evening Telegraph weekly paper. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men – things at …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 5/26
FACT OF THE DAY: Boxen: The Imaginary World of the Young C.S. Lewis was first published this month (5/28) in 1985. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.” The Pilgrim’s Regress (Published 5/25/1933) – – – QUIZ OF THE DAY: Who was the …