In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.

Prayer does not change God; it changes me.

I have been feeling very much lately that cheerful insecurity is what our Lord asks of us.

Puddleglum's my name. But it doesn't matter if you forget it. I can always tell you again.

It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.

And so take away his work, which was his life [. . .] and all his glory and his great deeds? Make a child and a dotard of him? Keep him to myself at that cost? Make him so mine that he was no longer his?

At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or sister, chief, colleague or subordinate. Not among Friends. It is an affair of disentangled, or stripped, minds. Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.