In the Darwinian world, self-preservation is the ultimate shiny good.

Every four years, I'll watch figure skating, but I'm no closer to buying tights.

Live Like a Narnian: Christian Discipleship in C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles

To love is to be selfless. To be selfless is to be fearless. To be fearless is to strip your enemies of their greatest weapon. Even if they break our bodies and drain our blood, we are unvanquished. Our goal was never to live; our goal is to love. It is the goal of all truly noble men and women. Give all that can be given. Give even your life itself.

Tragedy isn't an easy thing to kill. It takes more than a turtle. Tragedy must be destroyed by someone willing to be swallowed by it, willing to be broken, torn out of the flesh, but able to return to it. Someone must be able to shatter the tragic from within and exit into comedy, able to rip a hole so wide that a train of souls, a parade, could follow after, banging drums and throwing candy as they strolled into the sun.

In Bright Shadow: C.S. Lewis on the Imagination for Theology and Discipleship

I am here to paint you a picture of the world I see