FACT OF THE DAY: The first paperback edition of Lewis’s spiritual autobiography, Surprised by Joy was published today (5/4) in 1959. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Yes— it is sometimes hard to obey St. Paul’s “Rejoice.” We must try to take life moment by moment. The actual present is usually pretty tolerable, I …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 8/11
FACT OF THE DAY: “The Sailing of the Ark” was published on this day (8/11) in 1948 in Punch. Revised and retitled “The Late Passenger” in Poems. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most completely temporal part of time-for the …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 5/4
FACT OF THE DAY: The first paperback edition of Lewis’s spiritual autobiography, Surprised by Joy was published today (5/4) in 1959. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Yes— it is sometimes hard to obey St. Paul’s “Rejoice.” We must try to take life moment by moment. The actual present is usually pretty tolerable, I …
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: August 11th
FACT OF THE DAY:
“The Sailing of the Ark” was published on this day (8/11) in 1948 in Punch. Revised and retitled “The Late Passenger” in Poems.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most completely temporal part of time-for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.”
The Screwtape Letters XV
(Published in The Guardian on 8/8/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Which Narnia book is this quote found? “There was once a boy named Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: May 4th
FACT OF THE DAY:
The first paperback edition of Lewis’s spiritual autobiography, Surprised by Joy was published today (5/4) in 1959.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Yes— it is sometimes hard to obey St. Paul’s “Rejoice.” We must try to take life moment by moment. The actual present is usually pretty tolerable, I think, if only we refrain from adding to its burden that of the past and the future.”
Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne on 5/4/1962
(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 (2 words):
“Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship _____ _____ .”
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Quote: August 11, 2013
“The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most completely temporal part of time-for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.”
The Screwtape Letters – XV
(first published in The Guardian on 8/8/1941)