FACT OF THE DAY:
The sixth Screwtape letter was published on this day (6/6) in The Guardian in 1941. Topics include how to “weaken his (patient’s) prayers.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
(Screwtape Boasts:) “There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human’s mind against the Enemy [i.e. God].”
The Screwtape Letters VI
(Published in The Guardian on 6/6/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
To whom did Lewis dedicate Out of the Silent Planet?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
On this day (6/4) in 1954 Lewis accepted the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
(Screwtape Advises Wormwood:) “Do not allow any temporary excitement to distract you from the real business of undermining faith and preventing the formation of virtues.”
The Screwtape Letters V
(Published in The Guardian on 5/30/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Finish the quote and name the source (five words):
“It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the ______ _______ ______ ______ ______ .”
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FACT OF THE DAY:
One this date (5/5) in 1924 Lewis accepted a temporary position to teach philosophy at Oxford (his former tutor was taking a one-year leave).
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
Screwtape’s observation of humans: “Thanks to processes which we set at work in them centuries ago, they find it all but impossible to believe in the unfamiliar while the familiar is before their eyes.”
The Screwtape Letters I
(Published in The Guardian on 5/2/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Who did the illustrations for The Chronicles of Narnia series?
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My Fellow Junior Tempters,
As this semester at the Training College has gotten underway, Slubgob has asked me to close this morning’s demon-chapel. I come to you on a most delicate subject. As you know it was seventy years ago that some fool named C.S. Lewis released a book with my name on it. At the time I was not able to prevent this landmark event and have consistently tried to distant myself from it. However, I am here today to announce that I have been able to not only embrace the affair, but in some ways stand proud because of it!
Sure, there have been some unfortunate things that happen as a result of the book. Because Lewis first had my letters printed over the course of thirty-one weeks in The Guardian he managed to grow enough interest for the first printing of 2,000 copies to sell before it was published. This was followed by it being reprinted eight times
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FACT OF THE DAY:
Although previously released in 1991, All My Road Before Me came out in paperback in the US on this date (11/13) in 1992.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Prosperity knits a man to the World. He feels that he is “finding his place in it”, while really it is finding its place in him.”
The Screwtape Letters – XXVIII
(First published in The Guardian on 11/7/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Finish the quote and name the source (5 words):
“There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy…For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be ______ _____ ______ ______ _______.”
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The following is part of a series reflecting on the life of C.S. Lewis. This is accomplished by summarizing various events or happenings during his lifetime for the noted period and may include significant events related to him after his death.
Highlights for the first third of November (1st – 10th) include: A two-part broadcast talk on “Faith,” a posthumous book on Spenser and the start of bus ride to an unknown destination.
Mere Christianity, as many people know, is a collection of three smaller books that were published in the early 1940’s. Before that they were individual broadcasts on the BBC. A person can pick any of them and gain insight from what Lewis shares. However, as I was reading over the two radio talks for this period I got to thinking that if out of all of the material he shared
The 22nd Screwtape letter was published today in 1941 in The Guardian. It’s the only one signed by Toadpipe.
“Men are not angered by mere misfortune but by misfortune conceived as injury.”
The Screwtape Letters – XXI
(First published in The Guardian on 9/19/1941)
[Screwtape Advises:] “Surely you know that if a man can’t be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that ‘suits’ him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches.”
The Screwtape Letters – XVI
(first published in The Guardian on 8/15/1941)
“The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most completely temporal part of time-for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.”
The Screwtape Letters – XV
(first published in The Guardian on 8/8/1941)
