Category: Daily Lewis

Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 1st

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Lewis’s review of The Life of Samuel Johnson appeared today (4/1) in Sunday Telegraph under the title of “Boswell’s Bugbear.”

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Christianity is a statement which, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important.”

Christian Apologetics
(Talk given sometime around Easter 1945)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

“The Wild Waste Lands” was once a considered title of what Narnia book?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 31st

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Lewis preached “Miserable Offenders: An Interpretation of Prayer Book Language” at his parish church, Evensong, today (3/31) in 1946.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.”

Miserable Offenders: An Interpretation of Prayer Book Language
(Sermon Preached 3/31/1946)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What landmark event happen in Lewis’s life this month that was actually for the second time?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 30th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

This month (on the 7th) in 1945 Lewis wrote a letter to Mr. McClain turning down an offer for a speaking tour in America.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Friendship is unnecessary…it has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”

The Four Loves
(Published on 3/28/1960)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (4 words):
“I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are ______ ______ ______ ____ .”

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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 29th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

21st installment of what eventually became part of The Great Divorce was published today (3/29) in The Guardian in 1945.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“[In Heaven there] is joy that cannot be shaken. Our light can swallow up your darkness: but your darkness cannot now infect our light.”

Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XXI
(Published in The Guardian on 3/29/1945)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What book of essays that was Lewis’s first was released in what year this month?

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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 28th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

The Four Loves was released on this day (3/28) in 1960 and had first been a ten-part series of broadcasts.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.”

The Four Loves
(Published on 3/28/1960)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

To whom did Lewis dedicate The Screwtape Letters?

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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 27th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

“Unreal Estates,” a transcript of an interview with Lewis and others was published in the March, 1965 edition of Encounter.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.”

The Last Battle
(Published on 3/19/1956)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

In “The Last Battle” what is the result of the Dwarfs being so afraid of getting taken in again?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 26th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

“Dogma and Science” was published today (3/26) in 1943 in The Guardian; it’s now part of “Dogma and the Universe” in God in the Dock.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now…Come further up, come further in!”

The Last Battle
(Published on 3/19/1956)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (4 words):
“The ______ ______ _____ _____ is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift.

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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 25th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Today (3/25) in 1987 the US edition of Present Concerns, a collection of eighteen essays, became available.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Symbolism exists precisely for the purpose of conveying to the imagination what the intellect is not ready for.”

Letter to Sister Penelope CSMV on 3/25/1943
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

The first book ever published by Lewis was this month. What and when was it?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 24th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

“Must of Image of God Go?” is an essay published by Lewis in The Observer today (3/24) in 1963 and is available in God in the Dock.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Any entity describable without gross abuse of language as God must be ultimate reality, and if ultimate reality is personal, then God is personal.”

Must of Image of God Go?
(Published in The Observer on 3/24/63)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What book from the Narnia series was published this month in what year?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 23rd

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Lewis’s first collection of shorter works, Rehabilitations and Other Essays was published today (3/23) in 1939.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.”

Let’s Pretend
(Initially a BBC broadcast from 3/21/44)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (3 words):
This moment ______ _______ _______ .”
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