The Titanic was being built in Belfast when Lewis was growing up there. #CSLewis
Quote: June 26, 2013
“I think we may except [accept] it as a rule that whenever a person’s religious conversation dwells chiefly, or even frequently, on the faults of other people’s religions, he is in a bad condition”
Letter to Mary Van Deusen
(from Collected Letters, Volume 3 on 6/26/1952)
Quiz: June 25, 2013
What honor did Lewis receive this month in 1946?
Quote: June 25, 2013
“We act from duty in the hope that someday we shall do the same acts freely and delightfully.”
The Novels of Charles Williams
(Published in On Stories on 6/24/1982)
Fact: June 25, 2013
Lewis wrote nine different “Notes on the Way” columns in Time and Tide between 1940 and 1946. All are in print in various essay collections.
Fact: June 24, 2013
On Stories: and Other Essays on Literature was published on this day in 1982.
Quiz: June 24, 2013
Which Narnia book is the following passage from and who said it:
“All right, all right, You needn’t shout. I’m not so deaf as all that. What do you mean by coming here to tell me that nobody’s been killed? Why should anyone have been killed?”
Quote: June 24, 2013
“The simple physical pains and (still more) the pleasures can’t be expressed in language. I labour the point lest the devil should hereafter try to make you believe that what was wordless was therefore vague and nebulous. But in reality it is just the clearest, the most concrete, and the most indubitable realities which escape language: not because they are vague but because language is.”
Letter to Rhona Bodle
(from Volume 2 on 6/24/1949)
Quiz: June 23, 2013
Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“You can’t _____ _____ _____ while your eyes are blurred with tears.”
Quote: June 23, 2013
(Screwtape Admits:)
“Prayers offered in the state of dryness are those which please Him (God) best.”
The Screwtape Letters – VIII
(first published in The Guardian on 6/20/1941)