“After all, almost the main work of life is to come out of our selves, out of the little, dark prison we are all born in.”
Letter to Keith Masson
(from Volume 3 on 6/3/1956)
Quote: June 2, 2013
“The real difficulty is, isn’t it, to adapt ones steady beliefs about tribulation to this particular tribulation; for the particular, when it arrives, always seems so peculiarly intolerable.”
Letter to Owen Barfield
(from Volume 2 on 6/2/1940)
Fact: June 2, 2013
“Membership,” a talk by Lewis given four months earlier was published in the June, 1945 issue of Sobornost.
Quiz: June 2, 2013
Finish the quote and name the source (five words):
“It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the ______ _______ ______ ______ ______ .”
Quote: June 1, 2013
“There will always be those who, on discovering that history cannot really be turned to much practical account, will pronounce history to be Bunk.”
“Is History Bunk?”
(Published 6/1/1957 in The Cambridge Review)
Fact: June 1, 2013
“Is History Bunk?” by Lewis was first published today in 1957 in The Cambridge Review. It’s reprinted in Present Concerns.
Quiz: June 1, 2013
What is the title of a essay by Lewis, published this month that dealt with the order of “things?”
Fact: May 31, 2013
An abridged version of the book Miracles came out in 1958 published by The Association Press.
Quiz: May 31, 2013
To whom did Lewis dedicate Out of the Silent Planet?
Quote: May 31, 2013
“I take our emotional life to be ‘higher’ than the life of our sensations – not, of course, morally higher, but richer, more varied, more subtle.”
“Transposition”
(Sermon preached on 5/28/1944)