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: 9/24
FACT OF THE DAY: On September 12, 1951 “The Country of the Blind” is a poem first published in Punch and available in Poems. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.” Out of the Silent Planet (Published 9/23/1938) – – – QUIZ OF THE DAY: Complete the quote …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 8/20
FACT OF THE DAY: The third radio talk from Lewis’s first broadcast series was given today (8/20) in 1941; it was called “Materialism or Religion” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If there was a controlling power outside the universe, it could not show itself to us as one of the facts inside the …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 6/29
FACT OF THE DAY: The ninth letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian at the end of June (the 27th) in 1941. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy has produced, at times, or in ways, or in …
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: 3/30
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 …
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: September 24th
FACT OF THE DAY:
On September 12, 1951 “The Country of the Blind” is a poem first published in Punch and available in Poems.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.”
Out of the Silent Planet
(Published 9/23/1938)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Complete the quote and name the source (2 words):
“Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something together, _____ _____ . Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: August 20th
FACT OF THE DAY:
The third radio talk from Lewis’s first broadcast series was given today (8/20) in 1941; it was called “Materialism or Religion”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“If there was a controlling power outside the universe, it could not show itself to us as one of the facts inside the universe-no more than the architect of a house could actually be a wall or staircase or fireplace in that house.”
3rd BBC Broadcast
(Given on 8/20/1941; Then known as Materialism or Religion)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start _____ _____ _____ .”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 29th
FACT OF THE DAY:
The ninth letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian at the end of June (the 27th) in 1941.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy has produced, at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He has forbidden.”
The Screwtape Letters IX
(Published in The Guardian on 6/27/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Complete the quote and name the source (4 words):
“We…shall not be _____ _____ _____ _____ on the highest occasions if we have learned no habit of doing so on the lowest.”
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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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