Category: Daily Lewis

Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 29th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The ninth letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian at the end of June (the 27th) in 1941.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“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
(Published in The Guardian on 6/27/1941)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Complete the quote and name the source (4 words):
“We…shall not be _____ _____ _____ _____ on the highest occasions if we have learned no habit of doing so on the lowest.”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: July 4th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The tenth installment of The Screwtape Letters was published today (7/4) in 1941 in The Guardian.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

(Screwtape commenting on the patent faking cynical and skeptical attitudes):
“All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.”

The Screwtape Letters X
(Published in The Guardian on 7/4/1941)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What is the title of the non-Lewis fictional book that was published this month by a famous friend?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 28th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

Lewis received an honorary Doctor of Divinity from the University of St. Andrews on this day (6/28) in 1946.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“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 6/28/1963
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What is the title on a essay by Lewis, published this month that dealt with the order of “things?”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 27th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The first paperback edition of The Magician’s Nephew came out today (6/27) in 1963 (first published 5/2/55).

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“You can’t get second things by putting them first; you can get second things only by putting first things first. ”

First and Second Things
(Published in Time and Tide on 6/27/1942)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What are Hrossa in Out of the Silent Planet?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 26th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

First and Second Things was first published June 27, 1942 under the “Notes on the Way” column in Time and Tide.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“I think we may except [accept] it as a rule that whenever a person’s religious conversation dwells chiefly, or even frequently, on the faults of other people’s religions, he is in a bad condition.”

Letter to Mary Van Deusen 6/26/1952
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Puddleglum is what type of creature?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 25th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

On Stories: and Other Essays on Literature was initially published on June 24th in 1982.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“We act from duty in the hope that someday we shall do the same acts freely and delightfully.”

The Novels of Charles Williams
(Published in On Stories on 6/25/1982)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“You can’t _____ _____ _____ while your eyes are blurred with tears.”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 24th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The first paperback edition of The Silver Chair came out today (6/24) in 1965 (first published 9/7/53).

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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 believe that what was wordless was therefore vague and nebulous. But in reality it is just the clearest, the most concrete, and the most indubitable realities which escape language: not because they are vague but because language is.”

Letter to Rhona Bodle 6/24/1949
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What honor did Lewis receive this month in 1946?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 23rd

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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.

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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)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Which book from The Chronicles of Narnia did Lewis share the galley proofs of to his friends, the Inklings?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 22nd

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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.

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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 He wants.”

Letter to Rhona Bodle 6/22/1948
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“Joy is the serious _____ _____ _____ .
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 21st

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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.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Glory, as Christianity teaches me to hope for it, turns out to satisfy my original desire and indeed to reveal an element in that desire which I had not noticed.”

The Weight of Glory
(Sermon preached on 6/8/1941)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What essay from The Weight of Glory was published this month that was a first a talk a few months earlier?
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