but who can feel ugly, when their heart feels joy

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be a myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history.

Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.

Think of me as a fellow patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier could give some advice.

[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind of death.

The command "Be ye prfect" is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He said (in the Bible) that we were "gods" and he is going to make good his words. He will make us into a god or goddess, a dazzling, radiant, immortal creature...a bright stainless mirror which reflects back to God perfectly.