There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them.

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.

I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.

...the sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of beer, or a man alone reading a book that interests him..." - C.S. Lewis: Weight of Glory

When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.

Love as distinct from "being in love" is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.