George MacDonald - Reflections
How does the condition of mind affect our life's journey? - Engaging the help of #GeorgeMacdonald and others as a springboard for ideas and principles of living.
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- " 'Everything depends on what a man is in himself…' " "…common people, whether lords or shopkeepers, are slow to understand that possession, whether in the shape of birth, or lands, or money, or intellect, is a small affair in the difference between men. George Macdonald
- (From "Mary Marston," CHAPTER I, THE SHOP)
- "…Some children learn far better for not being begun early, and will get before others who have been at it for years..."
- "...As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you—in a book, or a friend, or, best of all in your own thoughts—the eternal thought speaking in your thought.” George Macdonald (From "The Marquis of Lossie," CHAPTER XLII, ST RONAN’S WELL)
- "Pray while there’s life an’ houp. Gie the Lord no rist." George Macdonald (From "Robert Falconer," PART I, CHAPTER XII, ROBERT'S PLAN OF SALVATION)
- "Nothing, however, as it seemed to him, could be done, for he was never ready to do anything to which he was neither led nor driven. He could not generate action, or, rather, he had never yet begun to generate action." George MacDonald (From "Guild Court," CHAPTER XI - MR. SIMON'S ATTEMPT)