FACT OF THE DAY: The poem “On Another Theme from Nicolas of Cusa” was published on 1/21/1955 in The Times Literary Supplement. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Our relation to those who trusted us only after we were proved innocent in court cannot be the same as our relation to those who trusted …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 10/2
FACT OF THE DAY: Originally an unsigned review, Lewis’s views on The Hobbit was published today (10/2) in 1937 in The Times Literary Supplement. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The Hobbit…will be funniest to its youngest readers, and only years later, at a tenth or a twentieth reading, will they begin to realise what deft scholarship …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 8/31
FACT OF THE DAY:
The Poem “Vowels and Sirens” came out in The Times Literary Supplement Special Autumn Issue in late August, 1952.
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 6/11
FACT OF THE DAY: Science-Fiction Cradlesong is a revised poem by Lewis published today (6/11) in 1954 under a different title in The Times Literary Supplement. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If we are made for heaven, the desire for our proper place will be already in us, but not yet attached to …
Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: October 2nd
FACT OF THE DAY:
Originally an unsigned review, Lewis’s views on The Hobbit was published today in 1937 in The Times Literary Supplement.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The Hobbit…will be funniest to its youngest readers, and only years later, at a tenth or a twentieth reading, will they begin to realise what deft scholarship and profound reflection have gone to make everything in it so ripe, so friendly, and in its own way so true.”
A World for Children
(First published 10/2/1937 in The Times Literary Supplement)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
“They smell battle, said ________, pointing at the birds. They know we’re preparing a feed for them.” Which character said this in which Narnia book?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: August 31st
FACT OF THE DAY:
The Poem “Vowels and Sirens” came out in The Times Literary Supplement Special Autumn Issue in late August, 1952.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
[After explaining some weaknesses in a child’s stories:] “I hope you don’t mind me telling you all this? One can learn only by seeing one’s mistakes.
Letter to Joan Lancaster on 8/31/1958
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Name the source of this quote:
“If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will…then we may take it it is worth paying.”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: June 11th
FACT OF THE DAY:
Science-Fiction Cradlesong is a revised poem by Lewis published today (6/11) in 1954 under a different title in The Times Literary Supplement.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“If we are made for heaven, the desire for our proper place will be already in us, but not yet attached to the true object, and will even appear as the rival of that object. ”
The Weight of Glory
(Sermon preached on 6/8/1941)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
Complete the quote and name the source (4 words):
“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, “Thy will be done”, and those to whom God says, in the end, _______ _______ ______ ______ .”
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FACT: October 2, 2013
Originally an unsigned review, Lewis’s views on The Hobbit was published today in 1937 in The Times Literary Supplement.
FACT: August 31, 2013
The Poem “Vowels and Sirens” came out in The Times Literary Supplement Special Autumn Issue in late August, 1952.
Fact: June 7, 2013
“The Morte D’Arthur” by Lewis was published today in 1947 in The Times Literary Supplement.