Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure.
George MacDonaldPeople must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it.
George MacDonaldIn low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell.
George MacDonaldNot only then has each man his individual relation to God, but each man has his peculiar relation to God.
George MacDonaldNow I want you to think that in life troubles will come, which seem as if they never would pass away. The night and storm look as if they would last forever; but the calm and the morning cannot be stayed; the storm in its very nature is transient. The effort of nature, as that of the human heart, ever is to return to its repose, for God is Peace.
George MacDonald