What was Edmund’s reply to Mr. Beaver’s description of Aslan and that he was coming back to Narnia?
Quote: August 8, 2013
“The humans live in time but our Enemy [God] destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time which they call the Present.”
The Screwtape Letters – XV
(first published in The Guardian on 8/8/1941)
Fact: August 8, 2013
The 15th letter from Screwtape was published today (8/8) in 1941 in The Guardian. Themes include understanding Time.
Quote: August 7, 2013
“The good things even of this world are far too good ever to be reached by imagination. Even the common orange, you know: no one could have imagined it before he tasted it. How much less Heaven.”
Letter to Mrs. Johnson
(from Collected Letters, Volume 3 on 8/7/1956)
Quiz: August 7, 2013
Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to _____ _____ _____ .”
Fact: August 7, 2013
The poem “Two Kinds of Memory” was published today in Time and Tide in 1947. A revised version is in Poems.
Quiz: August 6, 2013
What famous ship was built in Belfast where Lewis grew up?
Quote: August 6, 2013
“Quarreling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. And there would be no sense in trying to do that unless you and he had some sort of agreement as to what Right and Wrong are.”
Common Decency
(BBC Broadcast on 8/6/1941; “The Law of Human Nature” in Mere Christianity)
Fact: August 6, 2013
“Common Decency,” the first BBC broadcast by Lewis was given today (8/6) in 1941. It is better known as “The Law of Human Nature” in Mere Christianity.
Quiz: August 5, 2013
Which of the Narnia books did Lewis NOT dedicated to anyone?