Category: Daily Lewis

Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: May 11th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The talk “Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism” was given today (5/11) in 1959 to students at Wescott House, Cambridge. (Also known as Fern-Seed and Elephants”)

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“You cannot know that everything in the representation of a thing is symbolical unless you have independent access to the thing and can compare it with the representation.”

Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism
(Talk given on 5/11/1959)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are _____ ______ _____ .”

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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: May 10th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

Yesterday (5/9) in 1941 the second Screwtape Letter premiered in The Guardian before being available in the famous book.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“You don’t see Nature till you believe in the Supernatural: don’t get the full, hot, salty tang of her except by contrast with the pure water from beyond the world. Those who mistake Nature for the All are just those who can never realise her as a particular creature with her own flamed, terrible, beautiful individuality.”

Letter to Dom Bede Griffiths OSB on 5/10/1945
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What article by Lewis that had “self” in the title was published some year this month?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: May 9th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The revised edition of Miracles: A Preliminary Study was published today (5/9) in 1960 containing a revised third chapter.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

(Screwtape boasts:) “All the habits of the patient, both mental and bodily, are still in our favour.”

The Screwtape Letters II
(Published in The Guardian on 5/9/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What series of letters began to be published this month?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: May 8th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

Lewis was interviewed in May 1963 by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Published later that year and it is in God in the Dock.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The process of living seems to consist in coming to realise truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes. They cannot sound otherwise to those who have not had the relevant experience.”

Letter to Dom Bede Griffiths OSB on 5/8/1939
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What Narnia book was published this month in what year?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: May 7th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature was first published today (5/7) in 1964.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“No doubt all history in the last resort must be held by Christians to be a story with a divine plot.”

The Discarded Image
(Published in 5/7/1964)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Complete the quote and name the source (4 words):
“The central Christian belief is that Christ’s death has somehow put us right with God and given _____ _____ _____ _____ .”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: May 6th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The Magician’s Nephew took Lewis the longest to write of all the Narnia books (almost 5 years, from ’49 to ’54).
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The Christian must wage endless war against the clamour of the ego as ego: but he loves and approves selves as such, though not their sins.”

Two Ways with the Self
(Published on 5/3/1940 in The Guardian)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Someone very close to Lewis was born this month; who was it?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: May 5th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

One this date (5/5) in 1924 Lewis accepted a temporary position to teach philosophy at Oxford (his former tutor was taking a one-year leave).

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

Screwtape’s observation of humans: “Thanks to processes which we set at work in them centuries ago, they find it all but impossible to believe in the unfamiliar while the familiar is before their eyes.”

The Screwtape Letters I
(Published in The Guardian on 5/2/1941)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Who did the illustrations for The Chronicles of Narnia series?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: May 4th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The first paperback edition of Lewis’s spiritual autobiography, Surprised by Joy was published today (5/4) in 1959.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Yes— it is sometimes hard to obey St. Paul’s “Rejoice.” We must try to take life moment by moment. The actual present is usually pretty tolerable, I think, if only we refrain from adding to its burden that of the past and the future.”

Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne on 5/4/1962
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Complete the quote and name the source (2 words):
“Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship _____ _____ .”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: May 3rd

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FACT OF THE DAY:

Lewis’s article “Two Ways with the Self” was published on this date (5/3) in 1940 in The Guardian. It’s available in God in the Dock.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“There are two kinds of self-hatred which look rather alike in their earlier stages, but of which one is wrong from the beginning and the other right to the end.”

Two Ways with the Self
(Published on 5/3/1940 in The Guardian)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What non-fiction, professional title was published this month (but after Lewis’s death)?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: May 2nd

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FACT OF THE DAY:

On this day (5/2) in 1955 we found out how Narnia began with The Magician’s Nephew being first published!

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.”

The Magician’s Nephew
(Published on 5/2/1955)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Lewis once spoke about writing for children that didn’t give advice about writing for children; what was the title of the talk?
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