I know the two great commandments, and I'd better get on with them.

Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity.

Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other medium is available.

The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.

You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself

There is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and he wrong any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source. When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.

In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.