I've watched goldfish make babies, and ants execute earwigs. I've seen a fly deliver live young while having its head eaten by a mantis. And I had a golden retriever behave like one.

Your father died for me, and dying with you would be an honor, though not as great as dying to save you.

Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.

Self-loathing and self-worship can easily be the same thing. You hate the small sack of fluids and resentments that you are, and you would go to any length, and betray anything and anyone, to preserve it.

Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it. The greatest heroes stand because it is right to do so, not because they believe they will walk away with their lives. Such selfless courage is a victory in itself.

Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it.

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