George MacdonaldThinkers

Age is not all decay ; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration.

Faith is obedience, not compliance.

Fear is faithlessness.

Home is the only place where you can go out and in.

Moderation is the basis of justice.

Obedience is the key to every door.

Religion is life essential.

Truth is a very different thing from fact ; it is the loving contact of the soul with spiritual fact, vital and potent. It does not work in the soul independently of all faculty or qualification there for setting it forth or defending it Truth in the inward parts is a power, not an opinion.

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.