He loved us not because we were lovable but because He is love.

Many things - such as loving, going to sleep or behaving unaffectedly -are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.

If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit.

The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.

Every story of conversion is the story of blessed defeat.

Education without religion, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence, the other is to believe and to feel an unhealthy interest in them!

From his (George Macdonald's) own father, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe.