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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 19th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

The Last Battle was first published today (3/19) in 1956. This final Narnia story won the Carnegie Medal in Literature.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“‘Beloved,’ said the Glorious One, ‘unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truely. For all find what they truely seek.'”

The Last Battle
(Published on 3/19/1956)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (3 words):
“If you want a religion to make you feel comfortable, I certainly _____ _____ ____ .”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 12th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

3/12/1919 Lewis gave his first paper on textile designer, artist, writer and utopian socialist, William Morris, to the Martlets

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“God is love, and that love works through men— especially through the whole community of Christians.”

Good Infection
(Initially a BBC broadcast from 3/7/44)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (5 words):
“We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with ____ ____ ____ ____ _____ when infinite joy is offered us…”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 9th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

18th installment of the eventual book The Great Divorce was published in The Guardian today (3/9) in 1945. It was the first half of Ch. 12.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“It is no use to say `Lord, Lord’, if we do not do what Christ tells us.”

Mr C. S. Lewis on Christianity
(published in The Listener 3/9/44)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (5 words):
“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us: we are _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ will turn out to be.”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 5th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Today (3/5) in 1908, when Lewis was just 9, he recorded in his diary that he had read Paradise Lost.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility.”

Christianity and Culture
(Published in March 1940 in Theology)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (5 words):
“It is no use to ask God with facetious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with B. We must lay before Him what is in us not _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ .”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 2nd

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

“Memory of Sir Walter Scott” was a talk Lewis gave on this date (3/2) in 1956.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“What we practise, not (save at rare intervals) what we preach, is usually our great contribution to the conversion of others.”

Letter to Mrs. Johnson 3/2/1955
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (4 words):
“Until you conquer the fear of being ___ ___, ___ ____ you will remain.” (submitted by Winifred Sherman)
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: February 26th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

The 3rd and final Riddell Memorial Lecture entitled “The Abolition of Man” by Lewis was given today (2/26) in 1943.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.”
The Abolition of Man
(First a lecture from 2/26/1943 from the eventual The Abolition of Man)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (5 words):
“…it is certainly my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is ___ ___ ___ ___ ___.” (submitted by Winifred Sherman)
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: February 23rd

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Narrative Poems was published for the first time in the US today (2/23) in 1972. It had been released in the UK in 1969.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“It’s only the little germ of a desire for God that we need to start the process.”

Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XVI
(Published in The Guardian on 2/23/1945)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (two words):
“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a ____ ____ .”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: February 19th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

“On the Reading of Old Books” – an essay that was first published as the preface to a book by his friend Sister Penelope from 1944.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.”

On the Reading of Old Books
(Published originally as a preface to The Incarnation of the Word of God in 1944)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (four words):
“If nothing is certainly right, then of course it follows that ___ ___ ___ ___ .”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: February 16th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

(Click “Read More” to SEE Answer)FACT OF THE DAY:

71 years ago today (2/16/1943) The Screwtape Letters was published in the U.S., but was released in the UK in 1942
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.”

The Screwtape Letters
(Released in the U.S. on 2/16/1943)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (three words):
The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a ____ ____ ____ in the spectrum.
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: February 12th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Letters to Malcolm came out in the US today (2/12) in 1964 It was released in the UK at the end of the previous month.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“[Charles Williams writes] that sort of book in which we begin by saying, ‘Let us suppose that this everyday world were, at some one point, invaded by the marvellous. Let us, in fact, suppose a violation of frontier.'”

The Novels of Charles Williams
(Talk recorded and aired on 2/11/1949; now found in On Stories)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (two words):
“Unless the ____ ____ is independent of the things measured, we can do no measuring.”
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