Kansas is not easily impressed. It has seen houses fly and cattle soar. When funnel clouds walk through the wheat, big hail falls behind. As the biggest stones melt, turtles and mice and fish and even men can be seen frozen inside. And Kansas is not surprised. Henry York had seen things in Kansas, things he didn't think belonged in this world. Things that didn't. Kansas hadn't flinched.

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

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

Living is the same thing as dying. Living well is the same thing as dying for others.

Horace smiled. "Always breakfast like a man condemned. One never knows that a day may bring."

The fall of man did not introduce evil; it placed us on the wrong side of it, under its rule, needing rescue.

The truth is that a life well lived is always lived on a rising scale of difficulty.