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Reading for the third time. Such a good book.

"Yet the lies that Melkor, the mighty and accursed...sowed in the hearts of Elves and Men are a seed that does not die and cannot be destroyed; and ever and anon it sprouts anew, and will bear dark fruit even unto the latest days." pg 255

"None of the righteous has attained a reward quickly, but waits for it; for if God should pay the recompense of the righteous speedily, we should immediately be training ourselves in commerce and not in godliness..." pg 161

"And thou shalt come to the grave like ripened corn that is harvested in its due season, or like a heap on the threshing-floor which is gathered at the appointed time." pg 107

"And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite. For he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful, which he himself hath not imagined. " pg. 17

"The simple water blushed/seeing it's creator near." A line from a students poem about the wedding feast at Cana, pg. 272

"Know the great tradition and what was great about it, and build on it."

"[Staupitz] was evangelical, without being a Protestant. He cared little for Romanism, less for Lutheranism, all the practical Christianity." pg 121

Providence, it has been said, gave to France the dominion of the land, to England the dominion of the sea, to Germany the dominion of the air. The air is the region of speculation, but also the necessary condition of life on the land and the sea." pg 97

"The Roman church is a church of priests and has the grandest temples of worship; the Lutheran church is a church of theologians and has most learning and the finest hymns; the Reformed church is a church of the Christian people and has the best preachers and congregations." pg 26

"If human beings had no Creator, but are the product of random mutations, selected according to the survival of the fittest, can rights be "inalienable"? If the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are not endowed by the Creator, they must be a social construction, bestowed by the state or the culture. And what the state grants, the state can take away." pg 125

"The roar with which Diccon had greeted the dawn had been short-lived. He always bellowed at any moment of transition, such as that from night to day or eating to not eating, but he never bellowed for long. The noise he made was merely the fanfare of trumpets that announces to adoring subjects that royalty is now doing something different to what it was doing a short while before." pg. 46

"If you sometimes read into my books what I did not know I had put there, neither of us need be surprised, for greater readers have doubtless done the same to far greater authors...Perhaps a book ought to have more meanings than the writer intended?" C.S.Lewis

"It seems to me people do not become great, do not become discoverers and inventors by trying to be so, but by determining to do in the very best way what they have to do."