“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.”
The Great Sin
(Broadcast on BBC on 10/25/1942; Chapter Eight from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)
FACT: October 27, 2013
Narrative Poems was released today (10/27) in 1969. It included the entire contents of Dymer, Lewis’s second poetry book.
QUOTE: October 27, 2013
“We want in fact not so much a father in Heaven as a grandfather in heaven – a senile benevolence who as they say ‘liked to see young people enjoying themselves.'”
The Problem of Pain
(Published 10/18/1940)
QUIZ: October 27, 2013
Finish the quote and name the source (4 words):
“An old saint being asked whether it is easy or hard to love God replied: ‘It is easy to _____ ______ _____ ____.'”
FACT: October 26, 2013
Poems is a book collecting nearly all of Lewis’s shorter poems that was released on this date (10/26) in 1964.
QUOTE: October 26, 2013
“Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.”
Forgiveness
(Broadcast on BBC on 10/18/1942; Chapter Seven from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)
QUIZ: October 26, 2013
Earlier this month Lewis preached his first sermon…what was the title and when was it?
QUOTE: October 25, 2013
“Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison…[pride] is the complete anti-God state of mind.”
The Great Sin
(Broadcast on BBC on 10/25/1942; Chapter Eight from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)
QUIZ: October 25, 2013
That Hideous Strength is the title of the third space trilogy novel. What was the name of the abbreviated version?
FACT: October 25, 2013
The sixth talk from the third BBC radio series was give live today (10/25) in 1942. It is known as “The Great Sin”.