Tag: Converting Others

Fact / Quote / Quiz: January 13th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

On this date (1/13) in 1919 Lewis returned to Oxford after being demobilized the previous month (WWI, of course).

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“He who converts his neighbour has performed the most practical Christian political act of all.”

Meditation on the Third Commandment
(Published in The Guardian on 1/10/1941)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

In what Narnia book was this said and who said it? “In our world too, a Stable once had something inside it that was bigger than our whole world.”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 25th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Pictures of Lewis was taken on this day (11/25) in 1950 by John Chillingsworth for Radio Times.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“To convert one’s adult neighbour and one’s adolescent neighbour (just free from school) is the practical thing. . . . If you make the adults of today Christian, the children of tomorrow will receive a Christian education. What a society has, that, be sure, and nothing else, it will hand on to its young.”

Preface to B. G. Sandhurst’s How Heathen is Britain? (Collins Publishers, 1946) that was reprinted in God in the Dock under the title of “On the Transmission of Christianity”

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Who is Coriakin and in which Narnia book is he mentioned?
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