(Screwtape Advises Wormwood:)
“All extremes, except extreme devotion to the Enemy [i.e., God], are to be encouraged.”
The Screwtape Letters – VII
(first published in The Guardian on 6/13/1941)
Quote: June 12, 2013
“…Good images of what we really desire…the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.”
The Weight of Glory
(First preached as a sermon on 6/8/1941)
Quiz: June 12, 2013
Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“Woe to you if you ____ _____ _____ .”
Fact: June 12, 2013
“The War of Deliverance” is the name given to the conflict between Miraz and Caspian and the Old Narnians.
Quote: June 11, 2013
“If we are made for heaven, the desire for our proper place will be already in us, but not yet attached to the true object, and will even appear as the rival of that object.”
The Weight of Glory
(First preached as a sermon on 6/8/1941)
Fact: June 11, 2013
An expanded version of “Bulverism” by Lewis was printed in the June, 1944 issue of The Socratic Digest.
Quiz: June 11, 2013
What decision about his professional life that involved a major change did Lewis make sometime this month in what year?
Quote: June 10, 2013
“I can obey advice from others which I have often given myself in vain.”
Letter to Mary Van Deusen
(from Volume 3 on 6/10/1952)
Fact: June 10, 2013
Lewis finished his academic studies at Oxford in June, 1923.
Quiz: June 10, 2013
What was Lewis’s response when a girl asked her about “Aslan’s other name?”