The face of the Son of God, who, instead of accepting the sacrifice of one of his creatures to satisfy his justice or support his dignity, gave himself utterly unto them, and therein to the Father by doing his lovely will; who suffered unto the death, not that men might not suffer, but that their suffering might be like his, and lead them up to his perfection.
George MacDonaldNow and then, when I look round on my books, they seem to waver as if a wind rippled their solid mass, and another world were about to break through.
George MacDonaldBut there is a light that goes deeper than the will, a light that lights up the darkness behind it: that light can change your will, can make it truly yours and not another's - not the Shadow's. Into the created can pour itself the creating will, and so redeem it!
George MacDonaldI rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow.
George MacDonald