Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

It is always the novice who exaggerates.

We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but just because the contention is reversed and each side is fighting the other side’s battle, all the bitterness which really flows from thwarted self-righteousness and obstinacy and from the accumulated grudges of the last ten years is concealed from them by the nominal or official "Unselfishness" of what they are doing or, at least, held to be excused by it.

Love as distinct from "being in love" is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.

The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.