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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 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 3rd

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

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.

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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)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Which Narnia book is the following passage from and who said it:
“I have come home at last! The is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now.”
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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: December 1st

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

“Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce IV” was published today (12/1) in 1944 in The Guardian. It’s chapter 4 of The Great Divorce.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“It was the light, the grass, the trees that were different; made of some different substance, so much solider than things in our country that men were ghosts by comparison.”

Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce IV
(Published in The Guardian on 12/1/1944)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

(Name the source of this Lewis quote):
“You can’t, in most things, get what you want if you want it too desperately; anyway, you can’t get the best out of it.”
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