but who can feel ugly, when their heart feels joy

There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death.

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

If all experienced God in the same way and returned Him an identical worship, the song of the Church triumphant would have no symphony, it would be played like an orchestra in which all instruments played the same note.

Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.

It means that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still that she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of Time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and darkness before Time began, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and death itself would work backwards.

In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.