FACT OF THE DAY:
Back in 1941 today’s issue (1/10) of The Guardian included “Meditation on the Third Commandment” from Lewis.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The danger of mistaking our merely natural, though perhaps legitimate, enthusiasms for holy zeal, is always great.”
Meditation on the Third Commandment
(Published in The Guardian on 1/10/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What fictional title by Lewis was published on what date this month in what year?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
On this day (1/5) in 1945 the ninth installment of (the eventual) The Great Divorce (chapter seven) was published in The Guardian.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“In praying for people one dislikes I find it helpful to remember that one is joining in His prayer for them.”
Letter to Mary Van Deusen
(from Collected Letters, Volume 3 on 1/5/1951)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Finish the quote and name the source (four words):
“Of all the passions, the passion for the Inner Ring is most skillful in making a man who is not yet a very bad man ____ ____ ____ _____ .”
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FACT OF THE DAY:
“Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce VIII” was published today (12/29) in 1944 in The Guardian.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“”Great works’ (of art) and ‘good works’ (of charity) had better also be Good Work. Let choirs sing well or not at all.”
Good Work and Good Works
(Published in Good Work in Christmas, 1959 issue)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Finish the quote and name the source (4 words):
“There is no neutral ground in the universe: every square inch, every split second is claimed by God ______ ______ ______ ______ . ”
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FACT OF THE DAY:
“Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce VII” was published today (12/22) in 1944 in The Guardian.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I will bring you to the land not of questions but of answers, and you shall see the face of God.”
Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce VII
(Published in The Guardian on 12/22/1944)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Finish the quote and name the source (two words):
“Badness is only ____ _____ .”
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FACT OF THE DAY:
“Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce VI” was published today (12/15) in 1944 in The Guardian.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“A jealous man, drifting and unresisting, reaches a point at which he believes lies about his best friend…But errors which are sincere in that sense are not innocent.”
Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce VI
(Published in The Guardian on 12/15/1944)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Finish the quote (four words):
“____(1)____ is ____(2)____ with ___(3)____ ___(4)___: but not all things are connected by the short and straight roads we expected.”
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FACT OF THE DAY:
“Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce V” was published today (12/8) in 1944 in The Guardian. This eventual became part of The Great Divorce.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I do not look at myself. I have given up myself.”
Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce V
(Published in The Guardian on 12/8/1944)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
(Name the source of this Lewis quote):
“The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.”
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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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FACT OF THE DAY:
Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce III was published today (11/24) in 1944 in The Guardian.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“‘You mean the evening is really going to turn into a night in the end?’
‘He nodded.'”
Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce III (First published in The Guardian on 11/24/1944)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
(Name the source of this Lewis quote): “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival”
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FACT OF THE DAY:
The Screwtape Letters – XXX was released today (11/21) in 1941 in The Guardian. It was the next to last one.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
[A Warning to Wormwood]: “You will soon find that the justice of Hell is purely realistic, and concerned only with results. Bring us back food, or be food yourself.”
The Screwtape Letters – XXX
(First published in The Guardian on 11/21/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What essay was published this month in what year (and what was the title) that talked about some of how Lewis came to write the Narnia stories?
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FACT OF THE DAY:
The first weekly installment of The Great Divorce appears in The Guardian on this date (11/10) in 1944 under the title of Who Goes Home? or The Grand Divorce.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on.
Faith
(Given as a talk on the BBC on November 8, 1942 and later published as chapter 12 in Christian Behavior)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Finish the quote and name the source (5 words):
“Everybody says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until ____ _____ _____ _____ ______ .”
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