The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though the world might last a hundred years.

But the most obvious fact about praise — whether of God or anything — strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise unless (sometimes even if) shyness or the fear of boring others is deliberately brought in to check it.

In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.

Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading

Love...is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God. They can have this love for each other even at those moments when they do not like each other; as you love yourself even when you do not like yourself.

If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.

the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is.