FACT OF THE DAY: “The Condemned” is a poem first published as “Under Sentence” on September 7, 1945 in The Spectator. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If nothing, or nothing we recognise comes through, we imagine [God] has let us down and reject Him, perhaps at the very moment when help was on …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 8/26
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s father, Albert, was notorious for not liking his routine changed; this quality negatively affected his relationship with his sons. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “In fighting those who serve devils one always has this on one’s side; their Masters hate them as much as they hate us.” That …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 8/19
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis began recording today (19th) in 1958 the first half of a 10-part radio series about four types of love. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “To nearly all ancient men, and to many medieval men, friendship seemed the most valuable and the most completely human of all natural loves. …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 8/5
FACT OF THE DAY: “Invocation of Saints” is a letter published today (5th) in 1949 in Church Times that is now in God in the Dock. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: [Screwtape advises:] “You must therefore conceal from the patient the true end of Humility. Let him think of it not as self-forgetfulness …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 7/29
FACT OF THE DAY: Quam Bene Saturno, Lewis’s first published poem came out in July, 1913 (when he was just 14). It was in Cherbourg School Magazine. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We must, on pain of idiocy, deny from the very outset the idea that looking at is, by its own nature, …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 7/15
FACT OF THE DAY: It All Began with a Picture was an essay published in Radio Times today (7/15) in 1960 telling how #CSLewis got the idea for #Narnia. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “All my seven Narnian books, and my three science fiction books, began with seeing pictures in my head.” It All Began with …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 7/8
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis first used the term “Mere Christianity” in The Screwtape Letters #25; initially published 10/17/41 in The Guardian. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Our divisions should never be discussed except in the presence of those who have already come to believe that there is one God and that Jesus …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 7/1
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis wrote a letter to the editor on this day (7/1) in 1949 to Church Times. It’s in God in the Dock as “The Church’s Liturgy.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “When natural things look most divine, the demoniac is just round the corner.” The Four Loves (U.S. edition …
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: 6/17
FACT OF THE DAY: The paperback edition of The Personal Heresy by Lewis (with E.M.W. Tillyard) was published today (6/17) in 1965. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. Remember, though we struggle against things because we are afraid of them, it is often the …