The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles.

Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.

The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper.

Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still possesses.

Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemy’s (God’s) ground…He [God] made the pleasure: all our research so far has not enabled us to produce one. All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy [God] has produced, at at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He [God] has forbidden.

Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?

It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.