“All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy has produced, at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He has forbidden.”
The Screwtape Letters – IX
(first published in The Guardian on 6/27/1941)
Fact: June 29, 2013
The ninth letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian and the end of June (the 27th) in 1941
Quiz: June 29, 2013
What essay from The Weight of Glory was published this month that was a first a talk a few months earlier?
Quiz: June 28, 2013
In The Screwtape Letters where are the young demons initially taught and who leads the place?
Quote: June 28, 2013
Think of yourself just as a seed patiently wintering in the earth; waiting to come up a flower in the Gardener’s good time, up into the real world, the real waking.
Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne
(from Collected Letters, Volume 3 on 6/28/1963)
Fact: June 28, 2013
Lewis received an honorary Doctor of Divinity from the University of St. Andrews on this day in 1946.
Fact: June 27, 2013
First and Second Things was first published today (27th) in 1942 under the “Notes on the Way” column in Time and Tide.
Quote: June 27, 2013
“You can’t get second things by putting them first; you can get second things only by putting first things first.”
First and Second Things
(Published 6/27/42 under the “Notes on the Way” column in Time and Tide.)
Quiz: June 27, 2013
Which book from The Chronicles of Narnia did Lewis share the galley proofs of to his friends, the Inklings?
Quiz: June 26, 2013
Complete the quote and name the source (4 words):
“We…shall not be _____ _____ _____ _____ on the highest occasions if we have learned no habit of doing so on the lowest.”