More from George MacDonald

  1. 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…
  2. The uncertainty lies always in the intellectual region, never in the practical.
  3. 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 b…
  4. There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.
  5. No indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.
  6. There is a communion with God that asks for nothing, yet asks for everything ... He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is…
  7. 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…
  8. To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

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