Each is but a means to an end; in the perfected end we find the intent, and there God โ not in the laws themselves, except as his means of revealing himself. For that same reason, human science cannot discover God. For human science is but the backward undoing of the tapestry-web of God's science, it works with its back to him, and is always leaving him โ his intent.
George MacDonaldWhen I look like this into the blue sky, it seems so deep, so peaceful, so full of a mysterious tenderness, that I could lie for centuries and wait for the dawning of the face of God out of the awe-inspiring loving-kindness.
George MacDonaldMany a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.
George MacDonaldThis is and has been the Father's work from the beginning-to bring us into the home of His heart.
George MacDonaldTrust to God to weave your thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet.
George MacDonaldGod Himself - His thoughts, His will, His love, His judgments are men's home. To think His thoughts, to choose His will, to judge His judgments, and thus to know that He is in us, with us, is to be at home. And to pass through the valley of the shadow of death is the way home, but only thus, that as all changes have hitherto led us nearer to this home, the knowledge of God, so this greatest of all outward changes - for it is but an outward change - will surely usher us into a region where there will be fresh possibilities of drawing nigh in heart, soul, and mind to the Father of us all.
George MacDonald