The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.

Think of me as a fellow patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier could give some advice.

Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.

We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I In a Berkshire bar. The big workman Who had sat silent and sucked his pipe All the evening, from his empty mug With gleaming eye glanced towards us: "I seen 'em myself!" he said fiercely.

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.

The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that we may be forced to use it in another way-to find the Word in it...to re-live, while we read, the whole Jewish experience of God's gradual and graded self-revelation, to feel the very contentions between the Word and the human material through which it works.