Category: Daily Lewis

Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: July 19th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

On this date in 1943 “The Anvil” (a BBC radio program) recorded its show with Lewis as one of the guests.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”

The Screwtape Letters XII
(Published in The Guardian on 7/18/1941)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Before Mere Christianity was a hit, what was the book that came out this month that was released related to it?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: July 18th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The twelfth letter from Screwtape was published on this date (7/18) in The Guardian in 1941.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The only thing that matters is the extent to which you separate the man from the Enemy [God]. It does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing.”

The Screwtape Letters XII
(Published in The Guardian on 7/18/1941)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

In “The Great Divorce” what animal was perched on the shoulder of a ghost that symbolized lust (and what color was it)?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: July 17th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The classic “Meditation in a Toolshed” essay was published today (7/17) in The Coventry Evening Telegraph in 1945.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“You get one experience of a thing when you look along it and another when you look at it.”

Meditation in a Toolshed
(Published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph on 7/17/1945)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Clipsie is the chief duffer’s daughter in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, but what does her name mean?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: July 16th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

An collection of #CSLewis’s essays called Timeless at Heart: Essays on Theology was published today (7/16) in 1987.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“We have seen that every moral judgement involves facts, intuition and reasoning, and, if we are wise enough to be humble, it will involve some regard for authority as well.”

from Why I Am Not A Pacifist
(Reprinted in Timeless at Heart on 7/16/1987)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by _____ _____ _____ .”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: July 15th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

It All Began with a Picture was an essay published in Radio Times today (7/15) in 1960 telling how #CSLewis got the idea for #Narnia.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“All my seven Narnian books, and my three science fiction books, began with seeing pictures in my head.”

It All Began with a Picture
(Published in Radio Times on 7/15/1960)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

One of the saddest events in Lewis’s life happened this month; what was it?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: July 14th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

Imagination and Thought in the Middle Ages is a talk Lewis gave on two nights in July, 1956 (on the 17th and 18th).

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“[Flippancy] is a thousand miles away from joy; it deadens, instead of sharpening, the intellect; and it excites no affection between those who practice it.”

The Screwtape Letters XI
(Published in The Guardian on 7/11/1941)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Puddleglum is based on what person is Lewis’s life?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: July 13th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

Broadcast Talks was first released in the U.K. on this date (7/13) in 1942, containing the first two BBC radio series.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later. He may break his promise to you, but if you try breaking one to him he will be complaining ‘It’s not fair’ before you can say Jack Robinson.”

Broadcast Talks
(Published on 7/13/1942)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“We should mind humiliation less if _____ _____ _____ .”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: July 12th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

First and Second Things is an essay collection released on July 11, 1985 that actually contains material found in God in the Dock.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Flippancy builds up around a man the finest armour-plating against the Enemy [God].”

The Screwtape Letters XI
(Published in The Guardian on 7/11/1941)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What is the name of the only book released in the 1980’s that contained (at that time) essays by Lewis that had not been previously published since his death?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: July 11th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The eleventh letter from Screwtape was published on this date (7/11) in The Guardian in 1941.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“I don’t believe that good work is ever done in a hurry.”

Letter to Arthur Greeves 7/11/1916
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume I)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

In The Screwtape Letters where are the young demons initially taught and who leads the place?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: July 10th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

Present Concerns, an essay collection, came out on this day (July 10) in 1986. At the time all 19 essays had not previously been collected.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The knight…is not a compromise or happy mean between ferocity and meekness; he is fierce to the nth and meek to the nth.”

The Necessity of Chivalry
(Available in Present Concern published 7/10/1986)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Who was the last king of Narnia?
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