What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?
George MacDonaldSomehow, I can't say how, it tells me that all is right; that it is coming to swallow up all cries.
George MacDonaldHe may delay because it would not be safe to give us at once what we ask: we are not ready for it. To give ere we could truly receive, would be to destroy the very heart and hope of prayer, to cease to be our Father. The delay itself may work to bring us nearer to our help, to increase the desire, perfect the prayer, and ripen the receptive condition.
George MacDonald