Quote #29

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellow men.

More from George MacDonald

  1. I find that doing the will of God leaves me with no time for disputing about His plans.
  2. It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.
  3. How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
  4. It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.
  5. Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
  6. Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and m…
  7. Do you think that the work God gives us to do is never easy? Jesus says that His yoke is easy, His burden is light. People sometimes refuse…
  8. No indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.

All George MacDonald quotes