FACT OF THE DAY: The first of The Screwtape Letters debuted this month (May 2nd) in 1941 when it appeared in The Guardian (a weekly newspaper). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us: we are wondering how painful the best will turn …
(CCSLQ-5) God’s Megaphone
UPDATED (6/30/18) – The Misquotable C.S. Lewis is my book that examines 75 quotations attributed to Lewis that I caution you not to share. Some are falsely attributed to him, others are paraphrases of his words, and a few have context issues. Don’t share a quote attributed to Lewis unless you can confirm he wrote it and the meaning …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 6/24
FACT OF THE DAY: The first paperback edition of The Silver Chair came out today (6/24) in 1965 (first published 9/7/53). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The simple physical pains and (still more) the pleasures can’t be expressed in language. I labour the point lest the devil should hereafter try to make you …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 5/1
FACT OF THE DAY: The first of The Screwtape Letters debuted this month (May 2nd) in 1941 when it appeared in The Guardian (a weekly newspaper). – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us: we are wondering how painful the best will turn …
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 24th
FACT OF THE DAY:
The first paperback edition of The Silver Chair came out today (6/24) in 1965 (first published 9/7/53).
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The simple physical pains and (still more) the pleasures can’t be expressed in language. I labour the point lest the devil should hereafter try to make you believe that what was wordless was therefore vague and nebulous. But in reality it is just the clearest, the most concrete, and the most indubitable realities which escape language: not because they are vague but because language is.”
Letter to Rhona Bodle 6/24/1949
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What honor did Lewis receive this month in 1946?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: May 1st
FACT OF THE DAY:
The first of The Screwtape Letters debuted this month (May 2nd) in 1941 when it appeared in The Guardian (a weekly newspaper).
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us: we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
Letter to Father Peter Bide on 4/29/1959
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Who was the first of the Pevensie children to visit Narnia?
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QUOTE: September 11, 2013
“The scratches on your back, tear for tear, throb for throb, blood for blood, were equal to the stripes laid on the back of your stepmother’s slave because of the drugged sleep you cast upon her. You needed to know what it felt like.”
The Horse and His Boy
(Published 9/6/54)
Quiz: May 26, 2013
Complete the quote and name the source (4 words):
“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscious, but shouts in our pains: it is His ______ to ______ a _____ _______ .”