FACT OF THE DAY: “Membership,” a talk by Lewis given four months earlier, was published in the June, 1945 issue of Sobornost. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The real difficulty is, isn’t it, to adapt ones steady beliefs about tribulation to this particular tribulation; for the particular, when it arrives, always seems so …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 4/24
FACT OF THE DAY: Perelandra which was released in the UK in April, 1943; was first available in the US a year later or 4/11/44. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. It if means the desire to get ahead of other people—which is what …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 4/21
FACT OF THE DAY: “Interim Report” published in The Cambridge Review on this date (4/21) in 1956 presented Lewis’s comparison of Oxford and Cambridge. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed. They that are whole need not the physician. Christ died for men precisely because …
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: September 7th
FACT OF THE DAY:
The Silver Chair was first published in the UK on this date (9/7) in 1953.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Very likely, what with enemies, and mountains, and rivers to cross, and losing our way, and next to nothing to eat, and sore feet, we’ll hardly notice the weather.”
The Silver Chair
(Published 9/7/1953)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Name the source of this quote:
“Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.”
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RETROSPECT: September 1st – 11th
Highlights for September 1-11 include: Two Narnia books published, a final fictional work, being on the cover of Time in the U.S. and his only title devoted to a book of the Bible.
Time CoverThe number of books published over the years during these ten days would be enough for most authors for an entire lifetime. Although, two of the titles are collections of shorter works were released after his death, interestingly the five others were during the last eleven years of his life. An additional title, A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C.S. Lewis, is a lesser known collection of quotes first available in March, 1968, but was published as a paperback on the 9th in 1980.
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: July 7th
FACT OF THE DAY:
Mere Christianity was first published on this day (July 7th) in 1952.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“When a man who accepts the Christian doctrine lives unworthily of it, it is much clearer to say he is a bad Christian than to say he is not a Christian.”
Mere Christianity
(Published in 7/7/1952)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
If you consider the order they were first published, what do you first notice about The Silver Chair that is different from the previous three stories?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 24th
FACT OF THE DAY:
The first paperback edition of The Silver Chair came out today (6/24) in 1965 (first published 9/7/53).
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The simple physical pains and (still more) the pleasures can’t be expressed in language. I labour the point lest the devil should hereafter try to make you believe that what was wordless was therefore vague and nebulous. But in reality it is just the clearest, the most concrete, and the most indubitable realities which escape language: not because they are vague but because language is.”
Letter to Rhona Bodle 6/24/1949
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What honor did Lewis receive this month in 1946?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 16th
FACT OF THE DAY:
Lewis’s brother, Warren “Warnie” Hamilton Lewis was born today (6/16) in 1895. He wrote books on French History.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“We want the Church to be small not only that fewer men may know the Enemy but also that those who do may acquire the uneasy intensity and the defensive self-rightousness of a secret society or a clique.”
The Screwtape Letters VII
(Published in The Guardian on 6/13/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
How many Narnian years passed between The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and The Silver Chair?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 2nd
FACT OF THE DAY:
“Membership,” a talk by Lewis given four months earlier, was published in the June, 1945 issue of Sobornost.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The real difficulty is, isn’t it, to adapt ones steady beliefs about tribulation to this particular tribulation; for the particular, when it arrives, always seems so peculiarly intolerable.”
Letter to Owen Barfield 6/2/1940
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What is the first action of Prince Rilian in The Silver Chair when he is free of his enchantment?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 24th
FACT OF THE DAY:
Perelandra which was released in the UK in April, 1943; was first available in the US a year later or 4/11/44.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. It if means the desire to get ahead of other people—which is what I think it does mean—then it is bad. If it means simply wanting to do a thing well, then it is good.”
Answers to Questions on Christianity
(Talk given on April 18th or 19th in 1944 at the Electric and Musical Industries Christian Fellowship)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What are the first words Aslan says to Jill in The Silver Chair?
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