Tag: Quiz: Narnia

Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 21st

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

“Interim Report” published in The Cambridge Review on this date (4/21) in 1956 presented Lewis’s comparison of Oxford and Cambridge.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed. They that are whole need not the physician. Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.”

Religion and Rocketry
(Published as “Will We Lose God in Outer Space” in the April, 1958 issue of Christian Herald)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Who is asleep in The Silver Chair but wakes up in The Last Battle?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 17th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Will We Lose God in Outer Space? was published in the April 1958 issue of Christian Herald; it’s now known as “Religion and Rocketry”

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The voice of God indeed daily calls to us; calls to the world to abandon sins and seek the Kingdom of God wholeheartedly. O that we may all hear the call of the Father and, sometime, at last be converted to the Lord. ”
Letter to Don Giovanni Calabria on 4/17/1949
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Which Narnia book has the most chapters in it?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 14th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

“A Note on Comus” and “Genius and Genius” was published in The Review of English Studies in April in 1932 and 1936 respectively.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“But let us thank God that we are still very far from travel to other worlds. I have wondered before now whether the vast astronomical distances may not be God’s quarantine precautions. They prevent the spiritual infection of a fallen species from spreading.”

Religion and Rocketry (initially titled Will We Lose God in Outer Space)
(Published in Christian Herald in April 1958 issue)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

From which Narnia book is the following passage and who said it: “Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things…in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones.”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 10th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Nearly ten years after Lewis’s death, his older brother, Warnie, died this month (yesterday the 9th) in 1973 (at the age of 77).

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“[God] can’t be used as a road. If you’re approaching Him not as the goal but as a road, not as the end but as a means, you’re not really approaching Him at all.”

A Grief Observed
(Paperback edition published 4/7/1966)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Who are the first two children to see Narnia?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 7th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Another edition (a paperback) of A Grief Observed was published on this date (4/7) in 1966. It was first published in 1961.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“I gave these talks, not because I am anyone in particular, but because I was asked to do so.”

Preface to Broadcast Talks
(Written on 4/6/1942)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Who was Prince Caspian’s tutor?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 3rd

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Christian Apologetics was a talk Lewis gave sometime around Easter 1945 to an Anglican church group; now found in God in the Dock.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Those who read poetry to improve their minds will never improve their minds by reading poetry.”

Lilies That Fester
(Published April, 1955 in Twentieth Century)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Which Narnia book is the following passage from and who said it:
“And this is the marvel of marvels, that [Aslan] called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog.”

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Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 1st

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Lewis’s review of The Life of Samuel Johnson appeared today (4/1) in Sunday Telegraph under the title of “Boswell’s Bugbear.”

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Christianity is a statement which, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important.”

Christian Apologetics
(Talk given sometime around Easter 1945)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

“The Wild Waste Lands” was once a considered title of what Narnia book?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 24th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

“Must of Image of God Go?” is an essay published by Lewis in The Observer today (3/24) in 1963 and is available in God in the Dock.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Any entity describable without gross abuse of language as God must be ultimate reality, and if ultimate reality is personal, then God is personal.”

Must of Image of God Go?
(Published in The Observer on 3/24/63)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What book from the Narnia series was published this month in what year?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 13th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

This month in 1984 (actually on the 15th) The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C.S. Lewis (edited by Hooper) was released.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Prudence means practical common sense, taking the trouble to think out what you are doing and what is likely to come of it.
The ‘Cardinal Virtues’
(Reading for March 13th in The Business of Heaven)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Which character is the first to say Aslan’s name in LWW?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 10th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis, General

FACT OF THE DAY:

On this day (3/10) in 1949 Lewis shared two chapters of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe with his friend (and former student) Roger Green.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Nothing, not even the best and noblest, can go on as it now is. Nothing, not even what is lowest and most bestial, will not be raised again if it submits to death.”

Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XVIII
(Published in The Guardian on 3/9/1945)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What is the name of the north star in Narnia?
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