Tag: 1941

Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 13th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Although previously released in 1991, All My Road Before Me came out in paperback in the US on this date (11/13) in 1992.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Prosperity knits a man to the World. He feels that he is “finding his place in it”, while really it is finding its place in him.”

The Screwtape Letters – XXVIII
(First published in The Guardian on 11/7/1941)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (5 words):
“There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy…For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be ______ _____ ______ ______ _______.”
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Weight of Glory Anniversary Reflections (Revised)

William OFlaherty CSL Minute

“The Weight of Glory” was first published in the November, 1941 issue of Theology. Thus, I felt it appropriate to post a reflection of it that I did five months. Only minor edits have been done to the piece.

This year (2013) marks the 72nd anniversary of C.S. Lewis giving his famous sermon “The Weight of Glory.” He preached it on June 8, 1941 at St. Mary the Virgin in Oxford. If I understand correctly this was only the second time he was in any pulpit. His debut sermon was actually at the same location on October 22, 1939. On that date the message was called “None Other Gods: Culture in War-Time,” but it’s known today as “Learning in War-Time.” That talk was enjoyed so much that when Ashely Sampson was

Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 7th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

The last month of weekly letters from Screwtape began today (11/7) in 1941 when the 28th letter was published in The Guardian.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“[Humans] do tend to regard death as the prime evil and survival as the greatest good. But that is because we have taught them to do so. Do not let us be infected by our own propaganda.”

The Screwtape Letters – XXVIII
(First published in The Guardian on 11/7/1941)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What four children’s names did Lewis FIRST consider for the Pevensie children?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 4th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

“The Weight of Glory” was published in the November, 1941 issues of Theology.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The load, or weight, or burden of my neighbor’s glory should be laid daily on my back, a load so heavy that only humility can carry it, and the backs of the proud will be broken.”

The Weight of Glory
(Published in November, 1941 issue of Theology)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Once Lewis began to seriously write the Narnia books, which one took the longest for him to write?