I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.
George MacDonaldWhat distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?
George MacDonaldDoubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of things that are not yet, but have to be, understood. . . . Doubts must precede every deeper assurance; for uncertainties are what we first see when we look into a region hitherto unknown, unexplored, unannexed.
George MacDonald