Heaven will display far more variety than Hell.

Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.

Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron. Here is a book [The Lord of the Rings] which will break your heart."

But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees

I felt in my bones that this universe does not explain itself.

The man can neither man, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels.

What we have been told is how we men can be drawn into Christ-can become part of that wonderful present which the young Prince of the universe wants to offer to His Father-that present which is Himself and therefore us in Him. It is the only thing we were made for. And there are strange, exciting hints in the Bible that when we are drawn in, a great many other things in Nature will begin to come right. The bad dream will be over: it will be morning.