FACT OF THE DAY: Adam at Night is a poem published in Punch on 5/11/1949 then revised and re-titled as The Adam at Night in Poems. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Christianity…is precisely the story of a great Miracle. A naturalistic Christianity leaves out all that is specifically Christian.” Miracles: A Preliminary Study …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 4/5
FACT OF THE DAY: On Church Music was published this month in 1949 in English Church Music and is available in Lewis’s Christian Reflections. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “All our offerings, whether of music or martyrdom, are like the intrinsically worthless present of a child, which a father values indeed, but values …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 3/10
FACT OF THE DAY: On this day (3/10) in 1949 Lewis shared two chapters of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe with his friend (and former student) Roger Green. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Nothing, not even the best and noblest, can go on as it now is. Nothing, not even what …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 2/18
FACT OF THE DAY: On this date (2/18) in 1938 J.R.R. Tolkien wrote a letter to his publisher to consider Lewis’s manuscript of Out of the Silent Planet. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “To some, God is discoverable everywhere; to others, nowhere.” The Seeing Eye (Published originally as “Onward Christian Spacemen” in the February, …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 2/11
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis spoke on the BBC today (2/11) in 1949 on “The Novels of Charles Williams.” It was recorded and is also in On Stories. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “To find that one’s emotions do not ‘come to heel’ and line up as stable sentiments in permanent conformity with …
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: October 20th
FACT OF THE DAY:
On this day (10/20) in 1949 the last reported Thursday Inklings meeting occurred according to Lewis’s brother’s diary.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“If there’s anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they’re either braver than most, or else just silly.”
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
(Published 10/16/1950)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What is the order the Narnia books were first published?
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ANSWER TO YESTERDAY’S QUESTION:”…not being correctly seen…” (from A Preface to Paradise Lost)
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: September 14th
FACT OF THE DAY:
“The Adam Unparadised” is a poem first published today (9/14) in 1949 in Punch as “A Footnote to Pre-History”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The educated man habitually, almost without noticing it, sees the present as something that grows out of a long perspective of centuries.”
“God in the Dock”
(First published as “Difficulties in Presenting the Christian Faith to Modern Unbelievers” in September 1948 issue of Lumen Vitae )
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Complete the quote and name the source (4 words):
“No good work is done anywhere without aid from _____ ______ _____ _____ .”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: September 13th
FACT OF THE DAY:
In the U.S. The Weight of Glory was published on this (9/13) day in 1949. It was called Transposition in the U.K. and later updated in 1980.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavourable.”
Learning in War-Time
(Published in The Weight of Glory on 9/13/1949)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What book merely dealing with “words” was published this month?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: August 21st
FACT OF THE DAY:
“The Day with a White Mark,” a poem by Lewis was published in the August 17, 1949 issue of Punch.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.”
That Hideous Strength
(Published 8/16/1945)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Which Narnia book is the following passage from and who said it: “No more Aslan, no more Kings, no more silly stories about other worlds. The Dwarfs are for the Dwarfs.”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: August 5th
FACT OF THE DAY:
“Invocation of Saints” is a letter published today (5th) in 1949 in Church Times that is now in God in the Dock.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
[Screwtape advises:] “You must therefore conceal from the patient the true end of Humility. Let him think of it not as self-forgetfulness but as a certain kind of opinion (namely, a low opinion) of his own talents and character.”
The Screwtape Letters XIV
(Published in The Guardian on 8/1/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Lewis did something “great” in his early life this month; what was it?
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