Tag: 1945

Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 2nd

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FACT OF THE DAY:

“Membership,” a talk by Lewis given four months earlier, was published in the June, 1945 issue of Sobornost.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“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 6/2/1940
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What is the first action of Prince Rilian in The Silver Chair when he is free of his enchantment?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: May 28th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

Lewis wrote to Sister Penelope today (5/28) in 1945 stating that his book on Miracles was already finished (it came out 5/12/1947).

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“I quite agree with you about not using one’s job for propaganda: but once the pupil raises the question I think one has a free hand.”

Letter to Rhona Bodle 5/28/1949
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Complete the quote and name the source (4 words):
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscious, but shouts in our pains: it is His ______ to ______ a _____ _______ .”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: May 27th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

“Work and Prayer” is an essay published this month in the May 28, 1945 edition of The Coventry Evening Telegraph weekly paper.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men – things at once rational and animal.”

The Pilgrim’s Regress
(Published 5/25/1933)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What close friend of Lewis died sometime this month?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: May 24th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

Lewis’s obituary of Charles Walter Stansby Williams (1886-1945) was published in The Oxford Magazine today (5/24) in 1945).

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

(Screwtape Advises:) “Teach them to estimate the value of each prayer by their success in producing the desired feeling.”

The Screwtape Letters IV
(Published in The Guardian on 5/23/1941)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What talk did Lewis give sometime this month that used an illustration that included elephants?
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RETROSPECT: May 22th – 31st

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Highlights for the final third of May (22nd – 31st) include: A prize-winning essay, his first Christian book that was his only true allegory and a Pentecost sermon.

Lewis’s first book after becoming a Christian was very different in several ways than his two previous works. Those initial titles were poetry, while The Pilgrim’s Regress: An Allegorical Apology for Christianity, Reason and Romanticism, publishedon the 25th in 1933 was his debut prose effort. Additionally, the story was pure allegory. Interestingly, it was such a difficult read that Lewis himself even admitted it and ten years after its release he wrote a preface to explain his approach to the story.

Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: May 10th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

Yesterday (5/9) in 1941 the second Screwtape Letter premiered in The Guardian before being available in the famous book.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“You don’t see Nature till you believe in the Supernatural: don’t get the full, hot, salty tang of her except by contrast with the pure water from beyond the world. Those who mistake Nature for the All are just those who can never realise her as a particular creature with her own flamed, terrible, beautiful individuality.”

Letter to Dom Bede Griffiths OSB on 5/10/1945
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What article by Lewis that had “self” in the title was published some year this month?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 25th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

“The Grand Miracle,” preached earlier this month in 1945 was printed on the 27th in The Guardian.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“If I remember rightly, St. Augustine raised a question about the theological position of satyrs, monopods, and other semi-human creatures. He decided it could wait till we knew there were any.”

Religion and Rocketry
(Published as “Will We Lose God in Outer Space” in the April, 1958 issue of Christian Herald)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What non-Narnia book was published sometime this month (in what year) that was part of a series?
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RETROSPECT: April 20th – 30th

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Highlights for the final third of April (20th – 30th) include: Publication of Perelandra, a talk “On Three Ways of Writing for Children” and Lewis’s first marriage to Joy Davidman.

Before Lewis gain fame from a series of books about a place called Narnia, he had written a trilogy that had a science fiction theme. The second of those books, Perelandra, came out on the 20th in 1943. In it we take a trip to Venus with the main character, Ransom and follow his quest to save that world from impending corruption. In the U.S. it wasn’t released until a year later on the 11th. In 1953 a paperback version came out under the title Voyage to Venus. On some occasions in his life Lewis considered this novel to be his best (this was also said of Till We Have Faces). Perelandra was dedicated “To Some Ladies at Wantage,” as in Wantage,

Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 16th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

Lewis preached “The Grand Miracle” in April (on the 15th) in 1945 at St. Jude on the Hill Church in London. Now found in God in the Dock.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The question ‘Who is in the right’ (in a given quarrel) is quite distinct from the question ‘Who is righteous?’— for the worse of two disputants may always be in the right on one particular issue.”

Letter to Dom Bede Griffiths OSB on 4/16/1940
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Complete the quote and name the source (4 words):
“The great thing is to be found at one’s post as a child of God, living each day as though _____ _____ _____ _____ , but planning as though our world might last a hundred years.”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 15th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

While serving in WWI Lewis was wounded by a British shell on this day (4/15) in 1918 during the Battle of Arras.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The Christian story is precisely the story of one grand miracle, the Christian assertion being that what is beyond all space and time, what is uncreated, eternal, came into nature, into human nature, descended into His own universe, and rose again, bringing nature up with Him.”

The Grand Miracle
(Sermon Preached on 4/15/1945 at St. Jude on the Hill Church)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Two individuals close to Lewis died this month (one after his own death on this day); who are they?”
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