FACT OF THE DAY: This month (on the 7th) in 1945 Lewis wrote a letter to Mr. McClain turning down an offer for a speaking tour in America. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Friendship is unnecessary…it has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” The …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 3/11
FACT OF THE DAY: Today (3/11) in 1936 Lewis wrote to Charles Williams for the first time; it become the start of a close friendship. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.” Who …
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 19th
FACT OF THE DAY: “The Turn of the Tide” is a Lewis poem that was published on 11/1/1948 in Punch (Almanac). Revised version is in Poems. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I saw how stories of this kind [fairy stories] could steal past a certain inhabitant which had paralysed much of my own …
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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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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 30th
FACT OF THE DAY:
This month (on the 7th) in 1945 Lewis wrote a letter to Mr. McClain turning down an offer for a speaking tour in America.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Friendship is unnecessary…it has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
The Four Loves
(Published on 3/28/1960)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Finish the quote and name the source (4 words):
“I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are ______ ______ ______ ____ .”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 11th
FACT OF THE DAY:
Today (3/11) in 1936 Lewis wrote to Charles Williams for the first time; it become the start of a close friendship.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.”
Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XVII
(Published in The Guardian on 3/2/1945)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Of Lewis’s two books of poetry released before his conversion, which one was re-released during his life?
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QUOTE: August 19, 2013
“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.”
“Philia – Part I: Talk Three”
(Recorded 8/19/1958; Text was later adapted in The Four Loves)