Lewis resigned from Cambridge this month in 1963 where he held the chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature.
Quote: August 5, 2013
“A man is not usually called upon to have an opinion of his own talents at all, since he can very well go on improving them to the best of his ability without deciding on his own precise niche in the temple of Fame.”
The Screwtape Letters – XIV
(first published in The Guardian on 8/1/1941)
Quote: August 4, 2013
[Screwtape advises:] “You must therefore conceal from the patient the true end of Humility. Let him think of it not as self-forgetfulness but as a certain kind of opinion (namely, a low opinion) of his own talents and character.”
The Screwtape Letters – XIV
(first published in The Guardian on 8/1/1941)
Fact: August 4, 2013
Today in 1922 Lewis earned a first class (highest honors) degree in Literae Humaniores (“Greats”) from Oxford.
Quiz: August 4, 2013
Complete the quote and name the source (4 words):
“Everyone begins as a child by liking Weather. You learn the art of disliking it _____ _____ _____ _____ .”
Quiz: August 3, 2013
What book got the notice of someone from the BBC that lead to an invitation to Lewis’s debut on the radio that was fhis month?
Quote: August 3, 2013
“I take it as a first principle that we must not interpret any one part of Scripture so that it contradicts other parts, and specially we must not use an apostle’s teaching to contradict that of Our Lord.”
Letter to Mrs. Emily Mclay
(from Collected Letters, Volume 3 on 8/3/1953)
Fact: August 3, 2013
“On the Death of Charles Williams” (“To Charles Williams” in Poems) was first published in the August, 1945 issue of Britain Today.
Fact: August 2, 2013
Lewis wrote nearly 300 letters to Arthur Greeves over the span of about 50 years.
Quote: August 2, 2013
“God’s presence is not the same as the feeling of God’s presence and He may be doing most for us when we think He is doing least.”
Letter to Mary Margaret McCaslin
(from Collected Letters, Volume 3 on 8/2/1954)