FACT OF THE DAY:
A Preface to ‘Paradise Lost’ was published today (10/8) in 1942. Lewis adapted it from the 1941 Ballard Matthews Lectures.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.”
A Preface to ‘Paradise Lost’
(Published 10/8/1942)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Finish the quote and name the source (4 words):
“Human beings can’t make one another _____ ______ _____ ____. ”
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FACT OF THE DAY:
On this date in 1954 The Horse and His Boy was release in the US for the first time. It debuted in the UK last month.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him.”Morality and Psychoanalysis
(Broadcast on BBC on 10/4/1942; Chapter four from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Name the source of this quote:
“He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart.”
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FACT OF THE DAY:
“Historicism” is a article published in the October, 1950 issue of The Month. It’s reprinted in Christian Reflections.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Historicism is an illusion and that Historicists are, at the very best, wasting their time. I hope it is already clear that in criticizing Historicists I am not at all criticizing historians.”
Historicism
(Published in October, 1950 issue of The Month)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Complete the quote and name the source (2 words):
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FACT OF THE DAY:
The September 1946 issue of The Atlantic Monthly featured an article called “C.S. Lewis, Apostle to the Skeptics” by Chad Walsh.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“[Christianity] was never intended to replace or supersede the ordinary human arts and sciences: it is rather a director which will set them all to the right jobs, and a source of energy which will give them all new life, if only they will put themselves at its disposal.”
Social Morality
(Broadcast on BBC on 9/27/1942; Chapter two from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Name the source of this quote:
“You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.”
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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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FACT OF THE DAY:
“The Sermon and the Lunch” was first published on this date in 1945 in Church of England Newspaper. It’s now in God in the Dock.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The greed to be loved is a fearful thing. Some of those who say (and almost with pride) that they live only for love come, at last, to live in incessant resentment.”
The Sermon and the Lunch
(Published 9/21/1945 in Church of England Newspaper)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“Of all bad men ______ _____ _____ are the worst. Of all created beings the wickedest is one who originally stood in the immediate presence of God.”
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FACT OF THE DAY:
“The Landing” is a poem published in Punch on Sept. 15, 1948; a revised version is in Poems.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The limit of giving is to be the limit of our ability to give.”
English Literature in the Sixteenth Century
(Published 9/16/1954)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Name the source of this quote:
“Die before you die. There is no chance after.”
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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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FACT OF THE DAY:
Till We Have Faces, Lewis’s last published fictional work was released today (9/10) in 1956.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Die before you die, there is no chance after.”
Till We Have Faces
(Published 9/10/1956
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Complete the quote and name the source (4 words):
“Progress means not just changing, but _____ ______ _____ _____.”
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FACT OF THE DAY:
The Silver Chair was first published in the UK on this date (9/7) in 1953.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Very likely, what with enemies, and mountains, and rivers to cross, and losing our way, and next to nothing to eat, and sore feet, we’ll hardly notice the weather.”
The Silver Chair
(Published 9/7/1953)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Name the source of this quote:
“Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.”
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