“I think God wants us to love Him more, not to love creatures (even animals) less.”
Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne
(from Collected Letters, Volume 3 on 8/18/1956)
FACT: August 18, 2013
“Solomon,” a poem by Lewis was published in the August 14, 1946 issue of Punch.
QUIZ: August 18, 2013
Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“If nothing is self-evident, nothing _____ _____ _____ .”
QUIZ: August 17, 2013
A new edition of what non-fiction book was published this month?
QUOTE: August 17, 2013
“There is still life in the tradition which the Middle Ages inaugurated. But the maintenance of that life depends, in part, on knowing that the knightly character is art not nature—something that needs to be achieved, not something that can be relied upon to happen.”
The Necessity of Chivalry
(Published in Time and Tide on 8/17/1940)
FACT: August 17, 2013
The essay now known as “The Necessity of Chivalry” was first published today in 1940 in Time and Tide.
QUOTE: August 16, 2013
“There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there’s never more than one.”
That Hideous Strength
(Published 8/16/1945
FACT: August 16, 2013
The book of the Sci-Fi trilogy, That Hideous Strength, was published today (8/16) in 1945.
QUIZ: August 16, 2013
What fictional book was published this month under another name than when published ten years before?
QUOTE: August 15, 2013
[Screwtape Advises:] “Surely you know that if a man can’t be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that ‘suits’ him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches.”
The Screwtape Letters – XVI
(first published in The Guardian on 8/15/1941)