Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness.

It was not for societies or states, that Christ died, but for men.

I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one.

Be sure it is not for nothing that the Landlord has knit our hearts so closely to time and place – to one friend rather than another and one shire more that all the land.

Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love.

I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.