We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.
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 am ready,' I replied.
'How do you know you can do it?'
'Because you require it,' I answered.
All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come.
George MacDonaldWhen a man dreams his own dream, he is the sport of his dream; when Another gives it him, that Other is able to fulfill it.
George MacDonaldWhy are all reflections lovelier than what we call reality? -- not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier? Fair as is the gliding sloop on the shining sea, the wavering, trembling, unresting sail below is fairer still...All mirrors are magic mirrors. The commonest room is a room in a poem when I turn to the glass...There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning.
George MacDonaldTags: life truth reflection mirror
For others, as for ourselves, we must trust him. If we could thoroughly understand anything, that would be enough to prove it undivine; and that which is but one step beyond our understanding must be in some of its relations as mysterious as if it were a hundred.
George MacDonaldTags: god suffering trust uncertainty mystery theodicy
If man could do what in his wildest self-worship he can imagine, the grand result would be that he would be his own God, which is the Hell of Hells.
George MacDonaldIt is the heart that is unsure of its God that is afraid to laugh.
George MacDonaldThat's a poet.'
'I thought you said it was a bo-at.'
'Stupid pet! Don't you know what a poet it?'
'Why, a thing to sail on the water in.'
'Well, perhaps you're not so far wrong. Some poets do carry people over the sea....'
...
'A poet is a man who is glad of something, and tries to make other people glad of it too.
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