Humility is self-forgetfulness.

For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay-writing. The difference is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays.

That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality.

Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honor millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead; even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.

When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place [if we anticipate and look for it, rather than wallow in our 'supposed loss'. It can be helpful to think of the loss of that blessing as simply necessary to make way for another different blessing].

In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.