Category: Daily Lewis

Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 21st

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

“Interim Report” published in The Cambridge Review on this date (4/21) in 1956 presented Lewis’s comparison of Oxford and Cambridge.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed. They that are whole need not the physician. Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.”

Religion and Rocketry
(Published as “Will We Lose God in Outer Space” in the April, 1958 issue of Christian Herald)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Who is asleep in The Silver Chair but wakes up in The Last Battle?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 20th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Today (4/20) is the 71st anniversary of the publication of Perelandra; it tells of adventures in Venus.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Every joy is beyond all others. The fruit we are eating is always the best fruit of all.”

Perelandra
(Published 4/20/1943)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Complete the quote and name the source (2 words):
” _____ _____ responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 19th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Christian Behaviour was first published on this day (4/19) in 1943. It is better known for being Book 3 of Mere Christianity.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Hope is…a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think) a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.”

Christian Behaviour
(Published 4/19/1943)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What article by Lewis was published this month had the title “Outer Space” in it that was later re-titled?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 18th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Letters of C.S. Lewis, edited, with a Memoir by Warren Lewis was first published today (4/18) in 1966. Originally it began as a biography.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“It is a curious fact that the advice we can give to others we cannot give to ourselves and truth is more effective through any life rather than our own.”

Letter to Sister Penelope
(First available in Letters of C.S. Lewis published 4/18/1966)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

To whom did Lewis dedicate Till We Have Faces?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 17th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Will We Lose God in Outer Space? was published in the April 1958 issue of Christian Herald; it’s now known as “Religion and Rocketry”

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The voice of God indeed daily calls to us; calls to the world to abandon sins and seek the Kingdom of God wholeheartedly. O that we may all hear the call of the Father and, sometime, at last be converted to the Lord. ”
Letter to Don Giovanni Calabria on 4/17/1949
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Which Narnia book has the most chapters in it?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 16th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Lewis preached “The Grand Miracle” in April (on the 15th) in 1945 at St. Jude on the Hill Church in London. Now found in God in the Dock.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The question ‘Who is in the right’ (in a given quarrel) is quite distinct from the question ‘Who is righteous?’— for the worse of two disputants may always be in the right on one particular issue.”

Letter to Dom Bede Griffiths OSB on 4/16/1940
(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 (4 words):
“The great thing is to be found at one’s post as a child of God, living each day as though _____ _____ _____ _____ , but planning as though our world might last a hundred years.”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 15th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

While serving in WWI Lewis was wounded by a British shell on this day (4/15) in 1918 during the Battle of Arras.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The Christian story is precisely the story of one grand miracle, the Christian assertion being that what is beyond all space and time, what is uncreated, eternal, came into nature, into human nature, descended into His own universe, and rose again, bringing nature up with Him.”

The Grand Miracle
(Sermon Preached on 4/15/1945 at St. Jude on the Hill Church)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Two individuals close to Lewis died this month (one after his own death on this day); who are they?”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 14th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

“A Note on Comus” and “Genius and Genius” was published in The Review of English Studies in April in 1932 and 1936 respectively.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“But let us thank God that we are still very far from travel to other worlds. I have wondered before now whether the vast astronomical distances may not be God’s quarantine precautions. They prevent the spiritual infection of a fallen species from spreading.”

Religion and Rocketry (initially titled Will We Lose God in Outer Space)
(Published in Christian Herald in April 1958 issue)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

From which Narnia book is the following passage and who said it: “Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things…in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones.”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 13th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

23rd & final installment of what eventually became part of The Great Divorce was published today (4/13) in The Guardian in 1945.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Only the Greatest of all can make Himself small enough to enter Hell. For the higher a thing is, the lower it can descend.”

Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XXIII
(Published in The Guardian on 4/5/1945)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Complete the quote and name the source (5 words):
“We must attack the enemy’s line of communication. What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ .”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 12th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Lilies that Fester by Lewis was published this month in 1955 in Twentieth Century and is available in The World’s Last Night.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The more we get what we now call ‘ourselves’ out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become…our real selves are all waiting for us in Him.”

The New Men
(Initially a BBC broadcast from 4/4/44)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What is the name of the only full length article written my Lewis dealing with hymns?
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