I am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary religious being. In the most practical of all matters he will talk and speculate and try to feel, but he will not set himself to do.
George MacDonaldIn low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell.
George MacDonaldTo try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse. The only way to make them good is to be good, remembering well the beam and the mote.
George MacDonald