7/9-15 Weekly Dose of C.S. Lewis Quotes

Welcome to Weekly Dose of C.S. Lewis Quotes! Below you’ll see seven quotes selected from a variety of Lewis’s works over the years that are related to this week (or month). There is also a special video version of this for my YouTube channel, Knowing and Understanding C.S. Lewis, and an audio-only version via my podcast, All …

Fact / Quote / Quiz: 7/15

FACT OF THE DAY: It All Began with a Picture was an essay published in Radio Times today (7/15) in 1960 telling how #CSLewis got the idea for #Narnia.  – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “All my seven Narnian books, and my three science fiction books, began with seeing pictures in my head.” It All Began with …

Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: July 15th

FACT OF THE DAY:

It All Began with a Picture was an essay published in Radio Times today (7/15) in 1960 telling how #CSLewis got the idea for #Narnia.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“All my seven Narnian books, and my three science fiction books, began with seeing pictures in my head.”

It All Began with a Picture
(Published in Radio Times on 7/15/1960)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

One of the saddest events in Lewis’s life happened this month; what was it?
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RETROSPECT: July 11th – 21st

Highlights for the period of July 11-21 include: the first book resulting from speaking on the BBC, an unusual meditation, and the death of Joy.

When Lewis agreed to do talks over the radio he had no idea how well received they would be. After two successful series of talks that were each in five parts and another series scheduled to start in late September, the book Broadcast Talks was released on the 13th in 1942. Unlike the later books released after each of his last two series, this book contained no additional material. They were merely five chapters each to match what was on the air. The only difference had to do with the order of the chapters from the first series.

Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 25th

FACT OF THE DAY:

Pictures of Lewis was taken on this day (11/25) in 1950 by John Chillingsworth for Radio Times.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“To convert one’s adult neighbour and one’s adolescent neighbour (just free from school) is the practical thing. . . . If you make the adults of today Christian, the children of tomorrow will receive a Christian education. What a society has, that, be sure, and nothing else, it will hand on to its young.”

Preface to B. G. Sandhurst’s How Heathen is Britain? (Collins Publishers, 1946) that was reprinted in God in the Dock under the title of “On the Transmission of Christianity”

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Who is Coriakin and in which Narnia book is he mentioned?
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