FACT OF THE DAY:
Lewis’s first collection of shorter works, Rehabilitations and Other Essays was published today (3/23) in 1939.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.”
Let’s Pretend
(Initially a BBC broadcast from 3/21/44)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Finish the quote and name the source (3 words):
This moment ______ _______ _______ .”
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FACT OF THE DAY:
Lewis’s review of A Lectionary of Christian Prose from the Second Century to the Twentieth Century was published in Theology, December ’39.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Can it really be my duty to buy and receive masses of junk every winter just to help the shopkeepers? If the worst comes to the worst I’d sooner give them money for nothing and write it off as a charity.”
What Christmas Means to Me
(Published in Twentieth Century; December, 1957)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Finish the quote: (five words):
“All our merely natural activities will be accepted, if they are offered to God, even the humblest, and all of them, even the noblest, will be ______ ____ _____ _____ _______ .”
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“God makes no appetite in vain.”
Learning in War-Time
(Preached on 10/22/1939 as “None Other Gods: Culture in War-Time”)
Lewis preached his first sermon today (10/22) in 1939. We know it as “Learning in War-Time” (Then it was “None Other Gods: Culture in War-Time”)
“Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.”
Learning in War-Time
(Preached on 10/22/1939 as “None Other Gods: Culture in War-Time”)
“One hopes there will come a day when one can enjoy nice things said about one’s self just in the same innocent way as one enjoys nice things about anyone else—perfect humility will need no modesty.”
Letter to Sister Penelope
(from Collected Letters, Volume 2 on 8/9/1939)
