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. – – – 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 …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 2/23
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. – – – 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? …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 2/16
FACT OF THE DAY: 72 years ago today (2/16/1943) The Screwtape Letters was published in the U.S., but was released in the UK in 1942 – – – 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 …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 2/9
FACT OF THE DAY: The Screwtape Letters (book) was first published in the UK on this date (2/9) in 1942. – – – 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, …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 2/3
FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis’s short story “The Shoddy Lands” was published this month in 1956 in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself.” The Shocking Alternative (Given as a talk on the BBC on 2/1/1942) – …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 1/26
FACT OF THE DAY: The first meeting of the Oxford Socratic Club was today (1/26) in 1942. Lewis was the 1st president. – – – 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 …
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 26th
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
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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