Deaf, and Dumb, and Blind… But

"The heart is deaf and dumb and blind, but it has more in it--more life and blessedness, more torture and death--than any poor knowledge-machine of a brain can understand, or even delude itself into the fancy of understanding." — George MacDonald, Alec Forbes

Faith is the Charm

“She gave her at the same time the best of advice, and imagined she listened to it; but the young who take advice are almost beyond the need of it. Fools mustexperience a thing themselves before they will believe it; and then, remaining fools, they wonder that their children will not heed their testimony. Faith …

Love is Never Abstract

Via The Wardrobe of Moral Imagination Love is never abstract.” — Wendell Berry

The Mortal Man, and the Child

The mortal man, all careful, wise, and troubled,The eternal child in the nursery doth keep.To-morrow on to-day the man heaps doubled;The child laughs, hopeful, even in his sleep.The man rebukes the child for foolish trust;The child replies, "Thy care is for poor dust;Be still, and let me wake that thou mayst sleep.George MacDonald, The Diary …