The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.

All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain? Or even part of the cloudily crested, fifty-league-long, loud, uplifted wave of a journeying angels transit over and through my heart?

Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.

The great thing with unhappy times is to take them bit by bit, hour by hour, like an illness. It is seldom the present, the exact present, that is unbearable.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are ... It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.