FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s letter to the editor of Church Times on “The Holy Name” was published today (8/10) in 1951. – – – 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 …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 8/5
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. – – – 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 …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 7/1
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis wrote a letter to the editor on this day (7/1) in 1949 to Church Times. It’s in God in the Dock as “The Church’s Liturgy.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When natural things look most divine, the demoniac is just round the corner.” The Four Loves (U.S. edition …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 2/5
FACT OF THE DAY: “The Man Born Blind” was published on 2/4/1977 in Church Times. But a different version was later discovered called “Light.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I fancy we are all too ready, once we are converted ourselves, to assume that God will deal with everyone exactly as He does …
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: 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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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: July 1st
FACT OF THE DAY:
Lewis wrote a letter to the editor on this day (7/1) in 1949 to Church Times. It’s in God in the Dock as “The Church’s Liturgy.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“When natural things look most divine, the demoniac is just round the corner.”
The Four Loves
(U.S. edition first published 7/27/1960)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Whom did Lewis meet when he served in World War I that dramatically changed his life?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: February 5th
FACT OF THE DAY:
“The Man Born Blind” was published on 2/4/1977 in Church Times. But a different version was later discovered called “Light.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I fancy we are all too ready, once we are converted ourselves, to assume that God will deal with everyone exactly as He does with us. But He is no mass-producer and treats no two quite alike.”
Letter to Mrs. Jessup on 2/5/1954
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Finish the quote and name the source (two words):
“The danger of mistaking our merely natural, though perhaps legitimate, enthusiasms for holy zeal, is ____ ____ .”
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Fact: July 1, 2013
Lewis wrote a letter to the editor on this day in 1949 to Church Times. It’s in God in the Dock as “The Church’s Liturgy.”