FACT OF THE DAY: Today (5/31) in 1951 Lewis was having dinner with Roger Lancelyn Green and it was on this occasion that he asked him to be his biographer. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I take our emotional life to be ‘higher’ than the life of our sensations – not, of course, …
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: October 15th
FACT OF THE DAY:
Today in 1951 Prince Caspian was the second Narnia story published.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Things never happen the same way twice.”
Prince Caspian
(Published 10/15/1951)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Finish the quote and name the source (4 words):
“The whole point of seeing through something is to _____ ______ _____ ____.”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: September 24th
FACT OF THE DAY:
On September 12, 1951 “The Country of the Blind” is a poem first published in Punch and available in Poems.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.”
Out of the Silent Planet
(Published 9/23/1938)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Complete the quote and name the source (2 words):
“Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something together, _____ _____ . Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: August 10th
FACT OF THE DAY:
Lewis’s letter to the editor of Church Times on “The Holy Name” was published today (8/10) in 1951.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I think almost all the crimes which Christians have perpetrated against each other arise from this, that religion is confused with politics.”
Letter to Don Giovanni Calabria 8/10/1953
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“There is wishful thinking in Hell as well _____ _____ _____ .”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 5th
FACT OF THE DAY:
The first known letter that Lewis wrote to Arthur Greeves was on this date (6/5) in 1914. He wrote so many they filled a book!
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I do not feel that one must never say one believes or understands anything: any morning a doctrine I thought I already possessed may blossom into this new reality…”
Letter to Sister Penelope 6/5/1951
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What was Lewis’s response when a girl asked her about “Aslan’s other name?”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: May 31st
FACT OF THE DAY:
Today (5/31) in 1951 Lewis was having dinner with Roger Lancelyn Green and it was on this occasion that he asked him to be his biographer.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I take our emotional life to be ‘higher’ than the life of our sensations – not, of course, morally higher, but richer, more varied, more subtle.
Transposition
(Sermon preached on 5/28/1944)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What talk did Lewis give this month at the Oxford Socratic Club that had a question mark in the title?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: January 5th
FACT OF THE DAY:
On this day (1/5) in 1945 the ninth installment of (the eventual) The Great Divorce (chapter seven) was published in The Guardian.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“In praying for people one dislikes I find it helpful to remember that one is joining in His prayer for them.”
Letter to Mary Van Deusen
(from Collected Letters, Volume 3 on 1/5/1951)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Finish the quote and name the source (four words):
“Of all the passions, the passion for the Inner Ring is most skillful in making a man who is not yet a very bad man ____ ____ ____ _____ .”
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FACT: October 15, 2013
Today in 1951 Prince Caspian was the second #Narnia story published.
FACT: September 24, 2013
On September 12, 1951 “The Country of the Blind” is a poem first published in Punch and available in Poems.