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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 15th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

Lewis’s appointment at Magdalen College at Oxford officially began on this day (6/15) in 1925 and lasted there three decades.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself— to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed, & then to find yourself still in bed.”

Letter to Arthur Greeves 6/15/1930
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume I)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“Woe to you if you ____ _____ _____ .”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 11th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

Science-Fiction Cradlesong is a revised poem by Lewis published today (6/11) in 1954 under a different title in The Times Literary Supplement.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“If we are made for heaven, the desire for our proper place will be already in us, but not yet attached to the true object, and will even appear as the rival of that object. ”

The Weight of Glory
(Sermon preached on 6/8/1941)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Complete the quote and name the source (4 words):
“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, “Thy will be done”, and those to whom God says, in the end, _______ _______ ______ ______ .”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 8th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

“The Weight of Glory,” Lewis’s most famous sermon was preached on this day (6/8) in 1941 at St. Mary the Virgin in Oxford.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The New Testament has lots to say about self-denial, but not about self-denial as an end in itself.”

The Weight of Glory
(Sermon preached on 6/8/1941)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“Statements about God are extrapolations from the _____ of ____ _____ which the divine illumination enables us to know.”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 4th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

On this day (6/4) in 1954 Lewis accepted the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

(Screwtape Advises Wormwood:) “Do not allow any temporary excitement to distract you from the real business of undermining faith and preventing the formation of virtues.”

The Screwtape Letters V
(Published in The Guardian on 5/30/1941)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (five words):
“It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the ______ _______ ______ ______ ______ .”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 1st

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FACT OF THE DAY:

Is History Bunk? by Lewis was first published today (6/1) in 1957 in The Cambridge Review. It’s reprinted in Present Concerns.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“There will always be those who, on discovering that history cannot really be turned to much practical account, will pronounce history to be Bunk.”

Is History Bunk?
(Published on 6/1/1957 in The Cambridge Review)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Complete the quote and name the source (2 words):
“Truth and falsehood _____ _____ ; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: May 25th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The Pilgrim’s Regress: An Allegorical Apology for Christianity, Reason and Romanticism was published 81 years ago today (5/25/33).

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“How God loves us: not because we are lovable but because He is love, not because He needs to receive but He delights to give.”

Letter to Genia Goelz 5/15/1952
(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):
“On a great day the thing that makes it great may fill the_____ _____ _____ _____ .”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: May 21st

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The Allegory of Love was published today (5/21) in 1936. It was Lewis’s first academic title.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The function of allegory is not to hide but to reveal, and it is properly used only for that which cannot be said, or so well said, in literal speech.”

The Allegory of Love
(Publish 5/21/1936)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“A man is _____ _____ _____ as when striking an attitude of humility!”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: May 14th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

Today (5/14) in 1936 Lewis had Sonnet published in The Oxford Magazine under the name of Nat Whilk. It is available in Poems.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“It is probable that Nature is not really in Time and almost certain that God is not. Time is probably (like perspective) the mode of our perception.”

Miracles: A Preliminary Study
(Published on 5/12/1947)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“I think that if God forgives us we _____ _____ _____ .”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: May 11th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The talk “Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism” was given today (5/11) in 1959 to students at Wescott House, Cambridge. (Also known as Fern-Seed and Elephants”)

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“You cannot know that everything in the representation of a thing is symbolical unless you have independent access to the thing and can compare it with the representation.”

Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism
(Talk given on 5/11/1959)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are _____ ______ _____ .”

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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: May 7th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature was first published today (5/7) in 1964.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“No doubt all history in the last resort must be held by Christians to be a story with a divine plot.”

The Discarded Image
(Published in 5/7/1964)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Complete the quote and name the source (4 words):
“The central Christian belief is that Christ’s death has somehow put us right with God and given _____ _____ _____ _____ .”
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