FACT OF THE DAY: Dangerous Oversight is a poem by Lewis published in Punch on 5/21/1947 and revised and re-titled Young King Cole in Poems. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Only the courteous can love, but it is love that makes them courteous.” The Allegory of Love (Publish 5/21/1936) – – – QUIZ OF …
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 23rd
FACT OF THE DAY: “March for Drum, Trumpet, and Twenty-one Giants” is a Lewis poem first published in Punch in their Nov. 4, 1953 issue. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: Whatever men expect they soon come to think they have a right to: the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on …
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 19th
FACT OF THE DAY: “The Turn of the Tide” is a Lewis poem that was published on 11/1/1948 in Punch (Almanac). Revised version is in Poems. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I saw how stories of this kind [fairy stories] could steal past a certain inhabitant which had paralysed much of my own …
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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: September 14th
FACT OF THE DAY:
“The Adam Unparadised” is a poem first published today (9/14) in 1949 in Punch as “A Footnote to Pre-History”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The educated man habitually, almost without noticing it, sees the present as something that grows out of a long perspective of centuries.”
“God in the Dock”
(First published as “Difficulties in Presenting the Christian Faith to Modern Unbelievers” in September 1948 issue of Lumen Vitae )
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Complete the quote and name the source (4 words):
“No good work is done anywhere without aid from _____ ______ _____ _____ .”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: August 21st
FACT OF THE DAY:
“The Day with a White Mark,” a poem by Lewis was published in the August 17, 1949 issue of Punch.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.”
That Hideous Strength
(Published 8/16/1945)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Which Narnia book is the following passage from and who said it: “No more Aslan, no more Kings, no more silly stories about other worlds. The Dwarfs are for the Dwarfs.”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: August 18th
FACT OF THE DAY:
“Solomon,” a poem by Lewis was published in the August 14, 1946 issue of Punch.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I think God wants us to love Him more, not to love creatures (even animals) less.”
Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne on 8/18/1956
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Which Narnia book is the following passage from and who said it:
“No more Aslan, no more Kings, no more silly stories about other worlds. The Dwarfs are for the Dwarfs.”
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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: July 23rd
FACT OF THE DAY:
While two dozen poems by Lewis were published in Punch, “Revival or Decay?” is the only non-fiction work published there.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“All sorts of things will make a man brave for the time being. Alcohol, ignorance of the danger, anger, self-respect, human loyalty, and love of God. But they’re not all equally good sources.”
The Anvil
(BBC Radio Broadcast aired 7/22/1943)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Complete the quote and name the source (4 words):
“Ye cannot fully understand the relations of choice and Time till _____ _____ _____ _____ .”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: July 21st
FACT OF THE DAY:
The poem known today as The Magician and the Dryad was first published in Punch on July 20, 1949.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The feeling of being, or not being, forgiven and loved, is not what matters. One must come down to brass tacks. If there is a particular sin on your conscience, repent and confess it. If there isn’t, tell the despondent devil not to be silly.”
Letter to Mary Willis Shelburne 7/21/1958
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Which of the Narnia books is dedicated to a family?
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