FACT OF THE DAY: “Interim Report” published in The Cambridge Review on this date (4/21) in 1956 presented Lewis’s comparison of Oxford and Cambridge. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed. They that are whole need not the physician. Christ died for men precisely because …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 4/17
FACT OF THE DAY: Will We Lose God in Outer Space? was published in the April 1958 issue of Christian Herald; it’s now known as “Religion and Rocketry” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The voice of God indeed daily calls to us; calls to the world to abandon sins and seek the Kingdom …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 4/14
FACT OF THE DAY: “A Note on Comus” and “Genius and Genius” was published in The Review of English Studies in April in 1932 and 1936 respectively. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “But let us thank God that we are still very far from travel to other worlds. I have wondered before now …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 1/20
FACT OF THE DAY: “Ministering Angels” is a short story by Lewis first published in the January, 1958 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present to us: it is the very sign of His …
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 27th
FACT OF THE DAY: “Rejoinder to Dr Pittenger” was printed in the November 26, 1958 issue of The Christian Century. It’s reprinted in God in the Dock. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I freely admit that, believing both, I have stressed the transcendence of God more than His immanence. I thought, and think, that …
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 15th
FACT OF THE DAY: On 11/14/1958 Lewis wrote to Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher to accept his invitation to become a member of the Commission to Revise the Psalter. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Despair is a greater sin than any of the sins which provoke it.” The Screwtape Letters – XXIX (First published in The …
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 5th
FACT OF THE DAY:
After being released in the UK earlier in 1958, Reflections of the Psalms came out in the US the same year on November 5th.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“A little comic relief in a discussion does no harm, however serious the topic may be. (In my own experience the funniest things have occurred in the gravest and most sincere conversations.)”
Reflections on the Psalms
(Published in November 5, 1958 in the U.S.)
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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 ____ _____ _____ _____ ______ .”
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: September 8th
FACT OF THE DAY:
Lewis was on the cover of Time on this date (9/8) in 1947. Reflections on the Psalms came out today in 1958.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst. Of all created beings the wickedest is one who originally stood in the immediate presence of God.”
Reflections on the Psalms
(Published on 9/8/58)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Besides reading The Chronicles of Narnia in the order they were published, how many other “orders” can you read the series?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: August 31st
FACT OF THE DAY:
The Poem “Vowels and Sirens” came out in The Times Literary Supplement Special Autumn Issue in late August, 1952.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
[After explaining some weaknesses in a child’s stories:] “I hope you don’t mind me telling you all this? One can learn only by seeing one’s mistakes.
Letter to Joan Lancaster on 8/31/1958
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Name the source of this quote:
“If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will…then we may take it it is worth paying.”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: August 19th
FACT OF THE DAY:
Lewis began recording today (19th) in 1958 the first half of a 10-part radio series about four types of love.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“To nearly all ancient men, and to many medieval men, friendship seemed the most valuable and the most completely human of all natural loves. It was for them the crown of life and the school of virtues.”
The Four Loves
(First Recorded for Radio on 8/19 & 8/20/1958)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Who wrote the first book about Lewis’ writings after his death and what is the title?
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