It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.
George MacDonaldHer face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue.
George MacDonaldWe are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary.' What is that, grandmother?' To understand other people.' Yes, grandmother. I must be fair - for if I'm not fair to other people, I'm not worth being understood myself. I see.
George MacDonaldBut it is not the rich man only who is under the dominion of things; they too are slaves who, having no money, are unhappy from the lack of it.
George MacDonaldOn Good Friday Jesus died But rose again at Eastertide.....Lord, teach us to understand that your Son died to save us not from suffering but from ourselves, not from injustice...but from being unjust. He died that we might live - but live as he lives, by dying as he died who died to himself.
George MacDonald