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Fact / Quote / Quiz: February 9th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

The Screwtape Letters (book) was first published in the UK on this date (2/9) in 1942.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them.”

Preface to The Screwtape Letters
(Published 2/9/1942)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (three words):
“Simply to say prayers is not to pray; otherwise a team of ____ ____ ____ would serve as well..”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: February 2nd

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

The (often misunderstood) debate between #CSLewis and Anscombe happen on this date (2/2) in 1948.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it already.”

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

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (four words):
“For it is not so ___ ___ ___ ___ and so much of our attention that God demands; it is not even all our time and all our attention: it is our selves.”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: January 29th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Lewis preached his final sermon, “A Slip of the Tongue” on this day (1/29) in 1956. It was preached at Evernsong at Magdalene College.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“For it is not so much of our time and so much of our attention that God demands; it is not even all our time and all our attention: it is our selves.”

A Slip of the Tongue
(Sermon preached on 1/29/1956)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (two words):
“Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is ____ _____ .”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: January 26th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

The first meeting of the Oxford Socratic Club was today (1/26) in 1942. Lewis was the 1st president.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself…as if the good Lord had nothing to do but exist!”

Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XII (Published in The Guardian on 1/26/1945)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (three words):
“If a man’s self is not kept clean and bright, his ___ ___ ___ will be blurred—like the Moon seen through a dirty telescope.”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: January 22nd

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

The poem “On Another Theme from Nicolas of Cusa” was published on 1/21/1955 in The Times Literary Supplement.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Our relation to those who trusted us only after we were proved innocent in court cannot be the same as our relation to those who trusted us all through.”

On Obstinacy In Belief
(Published in Screwtape Proposes a Toast on 1/4/1965)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (five words):
“…it is certainly my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is ___ ___ ___ ___ ___.”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: January 19th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

The eleventh installment of The Great Divorce was published today (1/19) in 1945; it covered the first quarter of chapter nine.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Ye cannot fully understand the relations of choice and Time till you are beyond both.”

Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XI
(Published in The Guardian on 1/19/1945)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (four words):
“Far better things lie ahead than _____ _____ _____ _____ .”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: January 15th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

“Pan’s Purge,” a poem by Lewis was published today (1/15) in 1947 in Punch; it’s now printed in Poems.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself.”

The Great Divorce
(Published on 1/14/1946)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (three words):
“In any wholesome group of people which holds together for a good purpose, the exclusions are in a sense accidental…But your genuine Inner Ring _____ _____ _____ .”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: January 12th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

The tenth installment of The Great Divorce was published today (1/12) in 1945; it covered all of chapter eight.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Could you, only for a moment, fix your mind on something not yourself?”

Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce X
(Published in The Guardian on 1/12/1945)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (five words):
“He may say on his arrival down here, ‘I now see that I _____ _____ _____ ____ ____ in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.'”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: January 8th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

On this date (1/8) in 1955 Lewis’s article “George Orwell” was published in Time and Tide.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The question is not whether we should bring God into our work or not. We certainly should and must…Each vocation has its peculiar dangers and peculiar rewards.”

Letter to Sheldon Vanauken
(from Collected Letters, Volume 3 on 1/8/1951)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (four words):
“The Christian…does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good ____ _____ _____ _______ .”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: January 5th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

On this day (1/5) in 1945 the ninth installment of (the eventual) The Great Divorce (chapter seven) was published in The Guardian.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“In praying for people one dislikes I find it helpful to remember that one is joining in His prayer for them.”

Letter to Mary Van Deusen
(from Collected Letters, Volume 3 on 1/5/1951)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (four words):
“Of all the passions, the passion for the Inner Ring is most skillful in making a man who is not yet a very bad man ____ ____ ____ _____ .”
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