Never was there a more injurous mistake than to say it was thebusiness only of the clergy to care for souls.
George MacDonaldThere are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.
George MacDonaldGod hides nothing. His very work from the beginning is revelation--a casting aside of veil after veil, a showing unto men of truth after truth. On and on from fact Divine He advances, until at length in His Son Jesus He unveils His very face.
George MacDonaldHer face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue.
George MacDonaldTo free a man from suffering, he must be set right, put in health; and the health at the root of man's being, his rightness, is to be free from wrongness, that is, from sin. A man is right when there is no wrong in him. I do not mean set free from the sins he has done: that will follow; I mean the sins he is doing, or is capable of doing; the sins in his being which spoil his nature — the wrongness in him — the evil he consents to; the sin he is, which makes him do the sin he does.
George MacDonald