FACT OF THE DAY: The first US edition of The Four Loves was published today (7/27) in 1960. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We find thus by experience that there is no good applying to Heaven for earthly comfort. Heaven can give heavenly comfort; no other kind.” The Four Loves (U.S. edition Published …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 6/11
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. – – – 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 …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 3/29
FACT OF THE DAY: 21st installment of what eventually became part of The Great Divorce was published today (3/29) in The Guardian in 1945. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “[In Heaven there] is joy that cannot be shaken. Our light can swallow up your darkness: but your darkness cannot now infect our light.” …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 1/29
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis preached his final sermon, “A Slip of the Tongue” on this day (1/29) in 1956. It was preached at Evernsong at Magdalene College. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “For it is not so much of our time and so much of our attention that God demands; it is …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 1/27
FACT OF THE DAY: Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer was published today (1/27) in 1964; one of the last books Lewis prepared before his death. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Joy is the serious business of Heaven.” Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer (Published on 1/27/1964) – – – QUIZ OF THE …
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 2nd
FACT OF THE DAY: Today (11/2) in 1967 Spenser’s Images of Life was published. It was edited by Alastair Fowler and based on Lewis’s Cambridge lectures. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Faerie Queene is perhaps the most difficult poem in English. Quite how difficult, I am only now beginning to realize after …
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: October 27th
FACT OF THE DAY:
Narrative Poems was released today (10/27) in 1969. It included the entire contents of Dymer, Lewis’s second poetry book.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“We want in fact not so much a father in Heaven as a grandfather in heaven – a senile benevolence who as they say ‘liked to see young people enjoying themselves.'”
The Problem of Pain
(Published 10/18/1940)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
This order for the Narnian books is surely one of the most common in the world: 1) HHB, 2) LB, 3) LWW, 4) MN, 5) PC, 6) SC and 7)VDT. Despite being so common perhaps no one has ever actually read them in this order. Can you guess why that order is so common? (submitted by Stanley Anderson)
TODAY’S ANSWER WILL BE POSTED TOMORROW.
ANSWER TO YESTERDAY’S QUESTION:It is the order one would find them on the shelves of any public library – ie, in alphabetical order by title (with any preceding “The” moved to the end of the title, of course)
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: August 7th
FACT OF THE DAY:
The poem “Two Kinds of Memory” was published today (8/7) in Time and Tide in 1947. A revised version is in Poems.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The good things even of this world are far too good ever to be reached by imagination. Even the common orange, you know: no one could have imagined it before he tasted it. How much less Heaven. ”
Letter to Mrs. Johnson 8/7/1956
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What did Lewis do this month that made the publication of the Narnia books possible?
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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 29th
FACT OF THE DAY:
21st installment of what eventually became part of The Great Divorce was published today (3/29) in The Guardian in 1945.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“[In Heaven there] is joy that cannot be shaken. Our light can swallow up your darkness: but your darkness cannot now infect our light.”
Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XXI
(Published in The Guardian on 3/29/1945)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What book of essays that was Lewis’s first was released in what year this month?
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