FACT OF THE DAY:
“Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce V” was published today (12/8) in 1944 in The Guardian. This eventual became part of The Great Divorce.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I do not look at myself. I have given up myself.”
Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce V
(Published in The Guardian on 12/8/1944)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
(Name the source of this Lewis quote):
“The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.”
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FACT OF THE DAY:
The first weekly installment of The Great Divorce appears in The Guardian on this date (11/10) in 1944 under the title of Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on.
Faith
(Given as a talk on the BBC on November 8, 1942 and later published as chapter 12 in Christian Behavior)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Finish the quote and name the source (5 words):
“Everybody says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until ____ _____ _____ _____ ______ .”
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FACT OF THE DAY:
Is Theology Poetry? was a paper read by Lewis to the Socratic Club today (11/6) in 1944.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit in any of these things, not even science itself.”
Is Theology Poetry?
(Talk given on 11/6/1944 to Socratic Club)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Finish the quote and name the source (4 words):
“It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort; it’s not the sort of _____ _____ _____ _____ .”
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What essay did Lewis write with the title “red” in it that was first published this month in 1944?
“When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world.”
Nice People or New Men
(Chapter 10 of Beyond Personality; published 10/9/1944)
Beyond Personality: The Christian Idea of God was published on this date in 1944; from the final series of talks on the BBC.
“There is thus a distinction not only between thought and imagination in general, but even between thought and those images which the thinker (falsely) believes to be true.”
Horrid Red Things
(Published in Church of England Newspaper on 10/6/1944)
“Horrid Red Things” was published today in Church of England Newspaper in 1944. It was adapted in the book Miracles.
On this day in 1944 “The Death of Words” was published in The Spectator. It was republished in On Stories.
“The most important sense of a word is not always the most useful. What is the good of deepening a word’s connotation if you deprive the word of all practicable denotation?”
The Death of Words
(Published 9/22/1944 in The Spectator)
