Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me.

To see, in some measure, like God. His love and His knowledge are not distinct from one another, not from Him. We could almost say He sees because He loves, and therefore loves although He sees.

Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.

“Who are you?” One who has waited long for you to speak.

Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people

Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?

We only learn to behave ourselves in the presence of God.