Something Greater Than the Light, Is Coming

"So long as exist men and women of unwholesome mind, that lake will still be peopled with loathsomenesses. But hark the herald of the sun, the auroral wind, softly trumpeting his approach! The master-minister of the human tabernacle is at hand! Heaping before his prow a huge ripple-fretted wave of crimson and gold, he rushes …

Real Charity

I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help, and I doubt if it is the duty of any private person to fix his mind on ills which he cannot help. (This may even become an escape from the works of charity we really can …

To Wander With a Wandering Star

And I thought, "I will go with you, As man with God has gone, And wander with a wandering star, The wandering heart of things that are, The fiery cross of love and war That like yourself, goes on." O go you onward; where you are Shall honour and laughter be, Past purpled forest and …

God Himself – Alive

An ‘impersonal’ God — well and good. A subjective God of beauty, truth and goodness, inside our heads — better still. A formless life-force surging through us, a vast power which we can tap — best of all. But God himself, alive, pulling at the other end of the cord, perhaps approaching at an infinite …

Heresies and Fads

"FROM time to time in human history, but especially in restless epochs like our own, a certain class of things appears. In the old world they were called heresies. In the modern world they are called fads. Sometimes they are for a time useful; sometimes they are wholly mischievous. But they always consist of undue …

The Dangers of Philanthropy

“The part of philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour good must first study how not to do him evil, and must begin by pulling the beam out of his own eye.” Excerpt From Lilith, a romance George MacDonald https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/lilith-a-romance/id498674947?mt=11 This material may be protected by copyright.

Robert Falconer

“But to know that God was good, and fair, and kind — heartily, I mean, not half-ways, and with ifs and buts— my boy, there would be nothing left to be miserable about.” — George MacDonald, Robert Falconer

A Waking Joy

Is it because it is not thou I see, But only my poor, blotted fancy of thee? Oh! never till thyself reveal thy face, Shall I be flooded with life's vital grace. Oh make my mirror-heart thy shining-place, And then my soul, awaking with the morn, Shall be a waking joy, eternally new-born. — George …

The Desire of Their Soul

“To what end do men gather riches, but to multiply more? Do they not like Pyrrhus, the King of Epire, add house to house and lands to lands; that they may get it all? It is storied of that prince, that having conceived a purpose to invade Italy, he sent for Cineas, a philosopher and …

The Riddle of Love

There is but one thing Which is both work and wage, Both wound and healing, Both journey and inn, Both motive and method, Both master and servant, Both giving and receiving, Both law and freedom, Both antiquity and novelty, Both tradition and revolution, Both mystery and familiarity, Both innocence and knowledge, Both germ and consummation, …