FACT OF THE DAY: “Must of Image of God Go?” is an essay published by Lewis in The Observer today (3/24) in 1963 and is available in God in the Dock. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Any entity describable without gross abuse of language as God must be ultimate reality, and if ultimate reality is …
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: 2/14
FACT OF THE DAY: A Grief Observed was published for the first time in the US today (14th) in 1963, after being released in the UK on 9/29/1961. Also paperbacks of The Screwtape Letters and Mere Christianity (both 1955) in the UK. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Bereavement is not the truncation of …
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 22nd
FACT OF THE DAY: C.S. Lewis died on this date (11/22) in 1963, the same day as JFK and Aldous Huxley. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: The general rule which we have now pretty well established among them is that in all experiences which can make them happier or better only the physical …
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 28th
FACT OF THE DAY:
Lewis received an honorary Doctor of Divinity from the University of St. Andrews on this day (6/28) in 1946.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Think of yourself just as a seed patiently wintering in the earth; waiting to come up a flower in the Gardener’s good time, up into the real world, the real waking.”
Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne 6/28/1963
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What is the title on a essay by Lewis, published this month that dealt with the order of “things?”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 27th
FACT OF THE DAY:
The first paperback edition of The Magician’s Nephew came out today (6/27) in 1963 (first published 5/2/55).
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“You can’t get second things by putting them first; you can get second things only by putting first things first. ”
First and Second Things
(Published in Time and Tide on 6/27/1942)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What are Hrossa in Out of the Silent Planet?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 17th
FACT OF THE DAY:
The paperback edition of The Personal Heresy by Lewis (with E.M.W. Tillyard) was published today (6/17) in 1965.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. Remember, though we struggle against things because we are afraid of them, it is often the other way round— we get afraid because we struggle.”
Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne 6/17/1963
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What landmark event in Lewis’s life began related to his career this month in what year?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: May 8th
FACT OF THE DAY:
Lewis was interviewed in May 1963 by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Published later that year and it is in God in the Dock.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The process of living seems to consist in coming to realise truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes. They cannot sound otherwise to those who have not had the relevant experience.”
Letter to Dom Bede Griffiths OSB on 5/8/1939
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What Narnia book was published this month in what year?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 24th
FACT OF THE DAY:
“Must of Image of God Go?” is an essay published by Lewis in The Observer today (3/24) in 1963 and is available in God in the Dock.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Any entity describable without gross abuse of language as God must be ultimate reality, and if ultimate reality is personal, then God is personal.”
Must of Image of God Go?
(Published in The Observer on 3/24/63)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What book from the Narnia series was published this month in what year?
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How Hooper Got Started (CSLM-43)
There’s no denying that Walter Hooper has made the greatest contribution to the study of C.S. Lewis, but do you know how he got started?
If you had to name only one person closely associated with C.S. Lewis’ work it has to be Walter Hooper. Just about every book published after Lewis’ death that is a collection of his writings has been edited by Hooper. Interestingly, Hooper, who was born in the U.S., only began corresponding with Lewis less than ten years before he died and met him only during the summer of 1963 before his death.