Quote #34

No man can order his life, for it comes flowing over him from behind ... The one secret of life and development is not to devise and plan but to fall in with the forces at work - to do every moment's duty aright - that being the part in the process allotted to us: and let come - not what will, for there is no such thing - but what the eternal thought wills for each of us, has intended in each of us from the first.

More from George MacDonald

  1. No indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.
  2. The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a give…
  3. 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…
  4. The principal part of faith is patience.
  5. It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.
  6. The uncertainty lies always in the intellectual region, never in the practical.
  7. It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.
  8. There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.

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