C.S. Lewis

Quote for C.S. Lewis book The Silver Chair

“suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things-trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that’s a pretty funny thing, when you come to think of it. We’re just babies making up a game, if you’re right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That’s why I am going to stand by the play world. I’m on Aslan’s side even if there isn’t any Aslan to lead it. I’m going to live as a like Narnian as I can even if there isn’t any Narnia.”

Even if Christainity is not real it is far preferred to believe in something that will bring you joy in a dark place rather than to have no hope at all. And if we stand by our beliefs in the hardest of times we learn that it is not the strength of our faith but the strength of that which our faith is in.

This quote is from The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“’If I were addressing peasants or slaves,’ he said, ‘I might suppose that this suggestion procceded from cowardice. But I hope it will never be told in Narnia that a company of noble and royal persons in the flower of their age turned tail because they were afraid of the dark.’
‘But what manner of use would it be ploughing through that blackness?’ asked Drinian.
‘Use?’ replied reepicheep. ‘Use, Captian? If by use you mean filling our bellies or our purses, I confess it will be no use to you at all. So far as I know we did not sail to look for things useful but to seek honour and adventures. And here is as great of adventure as ever I heard of, and her if we turn back, no little impeachement of all our honours.’”

Reepicheep chooses to live a life of risk and adventure rather than a life of usefulness and routine. I hope to be the same.