FACT OF THE DAY: The Last Battle was first published today (3/19) in 1956. This final Narnia story won the Carnegie Medal in Literature. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “‘Beloved,’ said the Glorious One, ‘unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 2/23
FACT OF THE DAY: Narrative Poems was published for the first time in the US today (2/23) in 1972. It had been released in the UK in 1969. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It’s only the little germ of a desire for God that we need to start the process.” Who Goes Home? …
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: October 12th
FACT OF THE DAY:
A second edition of The Pilgrim’s Regress was published in October, 1935 by Sheed & Ward. The first publisher was J.M. Dent in 1933. The Pilgrim’s Regress: The Wade Annotated Edition officially comes out today (10/12/14).
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.”
The Pilgrim’s Regress
(2nd Edition Published October 1935)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Complete the quote and name the source (4 words):
“It is great men, potential saints, not little men, who become merciless fanatics…. They are _____ _____, _____ _____ , some temptations.”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 21st
FACT OF THE DAY:
An Expostulation (against too many writers of science fiction) – a poem from June, 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Glory, as Christianity teaches me to hope for it, turns out to satisfy my original desire and indeed to reveal an element in that desire which I had not noticed.”
The Weight of Glory
(Sermon preached on 6/8/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What essay from The Weight of Glory was published this month that was a first a talk a few months earlier?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 12th
FACT OF THE DAY:
An expanded version of “Bulverism” by Lewis was printed in the June, 1944 issue of The Socratic Digest.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“…Good images of what we really desire…the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.”
The Weight of Glory
(Sermon preached on 6/8/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What animals helped to freed Aslan in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 11th
FACT OF THE DAY:
Science-Fiction Cradlesong is a revised poem by Lewis published today (6/11) in 1954 under a different title in The Times Literary Supplement.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“If we are made for heaven, the desire for our proper place will be already in us, but not yet attached to the true object, and will even appear as the rival of that object. ”
The Weight of Glory
(Sermon preached on 6/8/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Complete the quote and name the source (4 words):
“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, “Thy will be done”, and those to whom God says, in the end, _______ _______ ______ ______ .”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 26th
FACT OF THE DAY:
“Dogma and Science” was published today (3/26) in 1943 in The Guardian; it’s now part of “Dogma and the Universe” in God in the Dock.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now…Come further up, come further in!”
The Last Battle
(Published on 3/19/1956)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Finish the quote and name the source (4 words):
“The ______ ______ _____ _____ is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift.
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 19th
FACT OF THE DAY:
The Last Battle was first published today (3/19) in 1956. This final Narnia story won the Carnegie Medal in Literature.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“‘Beloved,’ said the Glorious One, ‘unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truely. For all find what they truely seek.'”
The Last Battle
(Published on 3/19/1956)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Finish the quote and name the source (3 words):
“If you want a religion to make you feel comfortable, I certainly _____ _____ ____ .”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: February 23rd
FACT OF THE DAY:
Narrative Poems was published for the first time in the US today (2/23) in 1972. It had been released in the UK in 1969.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“It’s only the little germ of a desire for God that we need to start the process.”
Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XVI
(Published in The Guardian on 2/23/1945)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Finish the quote and name the source (two words):
“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a ____ ____ .”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: December 14th
FACT OF THE DAY:
Lewis gave the annual Commemoration Oration at King’s College today (12/14) in 1944. His topic was “The Inner Ring.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous.”
The Inner Ring
(Talk given on 12/14/1944)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What book was first published this month after Lewis’s death that dealt with topics from his professional career?
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