Category: Daily Lewis

Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 12th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

3/12/1919 Lewis gave his first paper on textile designer, artist, writer and utopian socialist, William Morris, to the Martlets

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“God is love, and that love works through men— especially through the whole community of Christians.”

Good Infection
(Initially a BBC broadcast from 3/7/44)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (5 words):
“We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with ____ ____ ____ ____ _____ when infinite joy is offered us…”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 11th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Today (3/11) in 1936 Lewis wrote to Charles Williams for the first time; it become the start of a close friendship.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.”

Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XVII
(Published in The Guardian on 3/2/1945)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Of Lewis’s two books of poetry released before his conversion, which one was re-released during his life?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 10th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis, General

FACT OF THE DAY:

On this day (3/10) in 1949 Lewis shared two chapters of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe with his friend (and former student) Roger Green.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Nothing, not even the best and noblest, can go on as it now is. Nothing, not even what is lowest and most bestial, will not be raised again if it submits to death.”

Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XVIII
(Published in The Guardian on 3/9/1945)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What is the name of the north star in Narnia?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 9th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

18th installment of the eventual book The Great Divorce was published in The Guardian today (3/9) in 1945. It was the first half of Ch. 12.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“It is no use to say `Lord, Lord’, if we do not do what Christ tells us.”

Mr C. S. Lewis on Christianity
(published in The Listener 3/9/44)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (5 words):
“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us: we are _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ will turn out to be.”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 8th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

During this month in 1948 Lewis began writing his autobiography Surprised by Joy, but it wasn’t published until 1955.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The words ‘God is love’ have no real meaning unless God contains at least two Persons.”

Good Infection
(Initially a BBC broadcast from 3/7/44)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What book by Lewis that had been a series of broadcasts was published sometime this month?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 7th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Good Infection, the third of the 4th BBC radio series was given today (3/7) in 1944. It became the fourth chapter in Mere Christianity.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“It is quite right to go away from (the words of the Bible) for a moment in order to make some special point clear. But you must always go back.”

Good Infection
(Initially a BBC broadcast from 3/7/44)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Where is John, the main character in The Pilgrim’s Regress born?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 6th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

“Christianity and Culture” appeared in the March 1940 issue of Theology, but someone replied to it that lead Lewis to comment further.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Once we have accepted an omniscient & providential God, the distinction we used to draw between the significant and the fortuitous must either break down or be restated in some v. much subtler form.”

Letter to Sheldon Vanauken 3/6/1955
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

How many books are there in The Chronicle of Narnia series?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 5th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Today (3/5) in 1908, when Lewis was just 9, he recorded in his diary that he had read Paradise Lost.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility.”

Christianity and Culture
(Published in March 1940 in Theology)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (5 words):
“It is no use to ask God with facetious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with B. We must lay before Him what is in us not _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ .”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 4th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C.S. Lewis became available for the first time today (3/4) in 1968.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“I believe no angel ever appears in Scripture without exciting terror: they always have to begin by saying “Fear not.”

Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne 3/4/1953
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Name the author who Lewis claims baptized his imagination in his teens.
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 3rd

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Lewis read his paper “The Personal Heresy in Poetics” to a group known as the Martlets on this day (3/3) in 1930.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.”

Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XVII
(Published in The Guardian on 3/2/1945)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Who did Lewis read two chapters of what Narnia book before it was published this month in what year?
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