FACT OF THE DAY: The Magician’s Nephew took Lewis the longest to write of all the Narnia books (almost 5 years, from ’49 to ’54). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth …
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: September 19th
FACT OF THE DAY:
Surprised By Joy: The Shape of My Early Life by Lewis was published today in 1955.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Joy is not a substitute for sex; sex is very often a substitute for Joy. I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for Joy.”
Surprised By Joy
(Published 9/19/1955)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What is the name of the creatures that are like angels in Lewis’ science fiction trilogy?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: July 14th
FACT OF THE DAY:
Imagination and Thought in the Middle Ages is a talk Lewis gave on two nights in July, 1956 (on the 17th and 18th).
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“[Flippancy] is a thousand miles away from joy; it deadens, instead of sharpening, the intellect; and it excites no affection between those who practice it.”
The Screwtape Letters XI
(Published in The Guardian on 7/11/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Puddleglum is based on what person is Lewis’s life?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: July 6th
FACT OF THE DAY:
The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C.S. Lewis was published on July 5th in 1984 and was edited by Walter Hooper.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
Passage from The Weight of Glory
(Published in The Business of Heaven)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“Nothing can deceive unless it bears a plausible _____ _____ _____ . ”
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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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Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 20th
FACT OF THE DAY:
Today (4/20) is the 71st anniversary of the publication of Perelandra; it tells of adventures in Venus.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Every joy is beyond all others. The fruit we are eating is always the best fruit of all.”
Perelandra
(Published 4/20/1943)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Complete the quote and name the source (2 words):
” _____ _____ responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 6th
FACT OF THE DAY:
22nd installment of what eventually became part of The Great Divorce was published today (4/6) in The Guardian in 1945.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it: or else for ever and ever the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves.”
Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XXII
(Published in The Guardian on 4/5/1945)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Complete the quote and name the source (4 words):
“For change is not progress unless ______ _____ _____ _____ …wherever there is real progress in knowledge, there is some knowledge that is not superseded.”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 12th
FACT OF THE DAY:
3/12/1919 Lewis gave his first paper on textile designer, artist, writer and utopian socialist, William Morris, to the Martlets
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“God is love, and that love works through men— especially through the whole community of Christians.”
Good Infection
(Initially a BBC broadcast from 3/7/44)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Finish the quote and name the source (5 words):
“We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with ____ ____ ____ ____ _____ when infinite joy is offered us…”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: February 6th
FACT OF THE DAY:
The Magician’s Nephew took Lewis the longest to write of all the Narnia books (almost 5 years, from ’49 to ’54).
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.”
The Shocking Alternative
(Given as a talk on the BBC on 2/1/1942)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Who is the only daughter of Kidrash Tarkaan and where is her story told?
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