In worship, God imparts himself to us.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.

Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place?

If you are worried about the people outside, the most unreasonable thing you can do is remain outside yourself. Christians are Christ's body...every addition to that body enables Him to do more. If you want to help those outside you must add your own little cell to the body of Christ who along can help them. Cutting off a man's fingers would be a odd way of getting him to do more work.

Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron. Here is a book [The Lord of the Rings] which will break your heart."

Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden).