Tag: The Guardian

Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 6th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

22nd installment of what eventually became part of The Great Divorce was published today (4/6) in The Guardian in 1945.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it: or else for ever and ever the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves.”

Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XXII
(Published in The Guardian on 4/5/1945)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Complete the quote and name the source (4 words):
“For change is not progress unless ______ _____ _____ _____ …wherever there is real progress in knowledge, there is some knowledge that is not superseded.”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 29th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

21st installment of what eventually became part of The Great Divorce was published today (3/29) in The Guardian in 1945.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“[In Heaven there] is joy that cannot be shaken. Our light can swallow up your darkness: but your darkness cannot now infect our light.”

Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XXI
(Published in The Guardian on 3/29/1945)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What book of essays that was Lewis’s first was released in what year this month?

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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 26th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

“Dogma and Science” was published today (3/26) in 1943 in The Guardian; it’s now part of “Dogma and the Universe” in God in the Dock.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“I have come home at last! This 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…Come further up, come further in!”

The Last Battle
(Published on 3/19/1956)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (4 words):
“The ______ ______ _____ _____ is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift.

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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 16th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

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 15th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

“Dangers of National Repentance” is an essay by Lewis published today (3/15) in 1940 in The Guardian.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The hard sayings of our Lord are wholesome to those only who find them hard.”

Dangers of National Repentance
(Published in The Guardian on 3/15/40)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What two types (or natures) of love does Lewis describe in The Four Loves?
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RETROSPECT: March 12th – 21st

William OFlaherty Jack in Retrospect, Special Feature

Highlights for the second third of March (12th – 21st) include: First ever published book, final Narnia book and a second marriage to Joy Davidman!

Spirits in BondageTwo books by Lewis were released for the first time during this period. His debut as an author came on the 20th in 1919 with Spirits in Bondage. This was a very small volume of poems published while he was only 20 years old, but many were written when he was just sixteen or seventeen. When initially released it was under the pseudonym of Clive Hamilton. They were composed in a period of Lewis’s life when his primary goal was to be known as a poet. It is also a time when he wasn’t a Christian.

Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 9th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

18th installment of the eventual book The Great Divorce was published in The Guardian today (3/9) in 1945. It was the first half of Ch. 12.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“It is no use to say `Lord, Lord’, if we do not do what Christ tells us.”

Mr C. S. Lewis on Christianity
(published in The Listener 3/9/44)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (5 words):
“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us: we are _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ will turn out to be.”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 3rd

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

Lewis read his paper “The Personal Heresy in Poetics” to a group known as the Martlets on this day (3/3) in 1930.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.”

Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce XVII
(Published in The Guardian on 3/2/1945)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Who did Lewis read two chapters of what Narnia book before it was published this month in what year?
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RETROSPECT: March 1st – 11th

William OFlaherty Jack in Retrospect, Special Feature

Highlights for the first third of March (1st – 11th) include: First book collecting quotations and shorter passages, how Charles Williams became a friend and a former student previews The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Less than five years after C.S. Lewis died a collection containing brief excerpts from a wide range of his writings came out on the 4th of March in 1968. A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C.S. Lewis would be the first of many books featuring quotations or shorter selections. This debut work was edited by Clyde S. Kilby, the person who began what we know today as The Marion E. Wade Center. The book is arranged into ten major sections and nearly all of those divisions are further divided into sub-themes.

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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