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: August 8th
FACT OF THE DAY:
The 15th letter from Screwtape was published today (8/8) in 1941 in The Guardian. Themes include understanding Time.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The humans live in time but our Enemy [God] destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time which they call the Present.”
The Screwtape Letters XV
(Published in The Guardian on 8/8/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What animal was Screwtape turn into when he became so angry with Wormwood?
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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 8, 2013
“The humans live in time but our Enemy [God] destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time which they call the Present.”
The Screwtape Letters – XV
(first published in The Guardian on 8/8/1941)