Category: Daily Lewis

Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 11th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Letters to Children was published on this day (4/11) in 1985, but its content can be found in the Collected Letters released in the 2000’s.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“To become new men means losing what we now call ‘ourselves’. Out of our selves, into Christ, we must go. ”

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

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Name the book (and editor of it) that is a collection of shorter readings (selections) from ONLY Lewis’ fictional works (Hint: it wasn’t edited by Walter Hooper) .
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 10th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Nearly ten years after Lewis’s death, his older brother, Warnie, died this month (yesterday the 9th) in 1973 (at the age of 77).

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“[God] can’t be used as a road. If you’re approaching Him not as the goal but as a road, not as the end but as a means, you’re not really approaching Him at all.”

A Grief Observed
(Paperback edition published 4/7/1966)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Who are the first two children to see Narnia?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 9th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Today (4/9) in 1941 Lewis gave his first Royal Air Force (RAF) talk at RAF Abingdon, Berkshire, England.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Those who stand outside all judgements of value cannot have any ground for preferring one of their own impulses to another except the emotional strength of that impulse.”

The Abolition of Man
(Published 4/8/1947 as the first U.S. edition)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Complete the quote and name the source (4 words):
“For change is not progress unless ______ _____ _____ _____ …wherever there is real progress in knowledge, there is some knowledge that is not superseded.”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 8th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

On this date (4/8) in 1947 the first U.S. edition (a hardback) of The Abolition of Man was published.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Who said I disliked women? I never liked or disliked any generalisation.”

Letter to Margaret Fuller on 4/8/1948
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

This month one of the three books that became a part of Mere Christianity was published; what was it?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 7th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Another edition (a paperback) of A Grief Observed was published on this date (4/7) in 1966. It was first published in 1961.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“I gave these talks, not because I am anyone in particular, but because I was asked to do so.”

Preface to Broadcast Talks
(Written on 4/6/1942)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Who was Prince Caspian’s tutor?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 6th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

22nd installment of what eventually became part of The Great Divorce was published today (4/6) in The Guardian in 1945.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it: or else for ever and ever the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves.”

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

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Complete the quote and name the source (4 words):
“For change is not progress unless ______ _____ _____ _____ …wherever there is real progress in knowledge, there is some knowledge that is not superseded.”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 5th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

On Church Music was published this month in 1949 in English Church Music and is available in Lewis’s Christian Reflections.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“All our offerings, whether of music or martyrdom, are like the intrinsically worthless present of a child, which a father values indeed, but values only for the intention.”

On Church Music
(Published in the April 194 issue of English Church Music)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

The only surviving recording from the BBC series that is a chapter is Mere Christianity is what chapter?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 4th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

The Laws of Nature by Lewis was published today (4/4) in The Coventry Evening Telegraph in 1945. now found in God in the Dock.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The laws of Nature explain everything except the source of events.”

The Laws of Nature
(Published April 4, 1945 in The Coventry Evening Telegraph)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

In which book of the Space/Ransom Trilogy is Belbury mentioned and what is it?

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Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 3rd

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Christian Apologetics was a talk Lewis gave sometime around Easter 1945 to an Anglican church group; now found in God in the Dock.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Those who read poetry to improve their minds will never improve their minds by reading poetry.”

Lilies That Fester
(Published April, 1955 in Twentieth Century)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Which Narnia book is the following passage from and who said it:
“And this is the marvel of marvels, that [Aslan] called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog.”

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Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 2nd

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

On this day (4/2) in 1908 Lewis’s grandfather (Richard Lewis) died.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“I think we must attack wherever we meet it the nonsensical idea that mutually exclusive propositions about God can both be true.”

Christian Apologetics
(Talk given sometime around Easter 1945)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Complete the quote and name the source (4 words):
“Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to _____ _____ _____ _____ .”
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