FACT OF THE DAY: “Ministering Angels” is a short story by Lewis first published in the January, 1958 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present to us: it is the very sign of His …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 1/16
FACT OF THE DAY: “The Romantics” is a poem that was found in The New English Weekly today (1/16) in 1947, but is now know as “The Prudent Jailer.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Of all the passions, the passion for the Inner Ring is most skillful in making a man who is …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 28th
FACT OF THE DAY:
The Four Loves was released on this day (3/28) in 1960 and had first been a ten-part series of broadcasts.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.”
The Four Loves
(Published on 3/28/1960)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
To whom did Lewis dedicate The Screwtape Letters?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 16th
FACT OF THE DAY:
19th installment of what eventually became The Great Divorce was published today (3/16) in The Guardian in 1945.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Fame in [Heaven] and fame on Earth are two quite different things.”
Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XIX
(Published in The Guardian on 3/16/1945)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Finish the quote and name the source (3 words):
“The guilt is washed out not by time _____ _____ _____ and the blood of Christ.”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 13th
FACT OF THE DAY:
This month in 1984 (actually on the 15th) The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C.S. Lewis (edited by Hooper) was released.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Prudence means practical common sense, taking the trouble to think out what you are doing and what is likely to come of it.
The ‘Cardinal Virtues’
(Reading for March 13th in The Business of Heaven)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Which character is the first to say Aslan’s name in LWW?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 12th
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 11th
FACT OF THE DAY:
Today (3/11) in 1936 Lewis wrote to Charles Williams for the first time; it become the start of a close friendship.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.”
Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XVII
(Published in The Guardian on 3/2/1945)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Of Lewis’s two books of poetry released before his conversion, which one was re-released during his life?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 5th
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
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 27th
FACT OF THE DAY:
The Screwtape Letters and Screwtape Proposes a Toast was published today (2/27) in 1961 and contained a new preface.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite…Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.”
The Screwtape Letters and Screwtape Proposes a Toast
(From new preface first published on 2/27/1961)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Which Narnia book is the following passage from and who said it:
“A boy in the street made a beastly joke about Queen Susan…so I knocked him down. He ran howling into a house and his big brother came out. So I knocked the big brother down.”
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