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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: September 3rd

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FACT OF THE DAY:

“The Mythopoeic Gift of Rider Haggard” was first published today (9/3) in 1960 in Time and Tide as “Haggard Rides Again.”

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“A great myth is relevant as long as the predicament of humanity lasts: as long as humanity lasts. It will always work, on those who can receive it. ”

Haggard Rides Again
(Published in Time and Tide on 9/3/1960)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Name the source of this quote: “Stagnation, my dear boy, what is more soul destroying than stagnation?”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: August 27th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The fourth radio talk from Lewis’s first broadcast series was given today (8/27) in 1941; it was called “What Can We Do About It.”

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.”

3rd BBC Broadcast
(Given on 8/27/1941; Then known as What Can We Do About It)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Name the source of this quote:
“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.”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: August 24th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

Lewis’s mother, Flora had a short story called “The Princess Rosetta” published in the The Household Journal in 1889.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“God has made it a rule for Himself that He won’t alter people’s character by force. He can and will alter them – but only if the people will let Him.”

The Trouble with ‘X’
(Published in August 1948 of Bristol Diocesan Gazette)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Complete the quote and name the source (4 words):
“Nothing, not even what is lowest and most bestial, will not be raised again if _____ _____ _____ _____ .”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: August 20th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The third radio talk from Lewis’s first broadcast series was given today (8/20) in 1941; it was called “Materialism or Religion”

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“If there was a controlling power outside the universe, it could not show itself to us as one of the facts inside the universe-no more than the architect of a house could actually be a wall or staircase or fireplace in that house.”

3rd BBC Broadcast
(Given on 8/20/1941; Then known as Materialism or Religion)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start _____ _____ _____ .”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: August 17th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The essay now known as “The Necessity of Chivalry” was first published today (8/17) in 1940 in Time and Tide.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“There is still life in the tradition which the Middle Ages inaugurated. But the maintenance of that life depends, in part, on knowing that the knightly character is art not nature—something that needs to be achieved, not something that can be relied upon to happen. ”

The Necessity of Chivalry
(Published in Time and Tide on 8/17/1940)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Complete the quote and name the source (6 words):
“Christ died for men precisely because _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____; to make them worth it.”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: August 13th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The second ever radio talk by Lewis was given today (8/13) in 1941. At the time it was called “Scientific Law and Moral Law” but is “THE REALITY OF THE LAW” in Mere Christianity.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The laws of nature, as applied to stones or trees, may only mean ‘what Nature, in fact, does’. But if you turn to the Law of Human Nature, the Law of Decent Behaviour, it is a different matter. That law certainly does not mean ‘what human beings, in fact, do’; for as I said before, many of them do not obey this law at all, and none of them obey it completely. ”

2nd BBC Broadcast
(Given on 8/13/1941; Known as The Reality of the Law)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“If nothing is self-evident, nothing _____ _____ _____ .”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: August 10th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

Lewis’s letter to the editor of Church Times on “The Holy Name” was published today (8/10) in 1951.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“I think almost all the crimes which Christians have perpetrated against each other arise from this, that religion is confused with politics.”

Letter to Don Giovanni Calabria 8/10/1953
(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 (3 words):
“There is wishful thinking in Hell as well _____ _____ _____ .”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: August 6th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

“Common Decency,” the first BBC broadcast by Lewis was given today (8/6) in 1941. It is better known as “The Law of Human Nature” in Mere Christianity.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Quarreling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. And there would be no sense in trying to do that unless you and he had some sort of agreement as to what Right and Wrong are.”

The Law of Human Nature
(First heard on the BBC on 8/6/1941)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to _____ _____ _____ .”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: August 3rd

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FACT OF THE DAY:

Lewis resigned from Cambridge this month in 1963 where he held the chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“I take it as a first principle that we must not interpret any one part of Scripture so that it contradicts other parts, and specially we must not use an apostle’s teaching to contradict that of Our Lord.

Letter to Mrs. Emily Mclay 8/3/1953
(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 (4 words):
“Everyone begins as a child by liking Weather. You learn the art of disliking it _____ _____ _____ _____ .”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: July 30th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

“Epitaph” is a poem published today (7/30) in 1948 in The Spectator. Revised and retitled as “Epigrams and Epitaphs” in Poems.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“We really don’t know much about loving until we’re in touch with love Himself. ”

The Anvil
(BBC Radio Broadcast aired 7/22/1943)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“So often, whether for good or ill, one’s inner state seems to have so little connection _____ _____ _____ .”
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