Quotes from MacDonald George

God is just like Jesus – exactly like him!

The world is a fine thing to save, but a wretch to worship.

If you turn your face to the Sun, my boy, your soul will, when you come to die, feel like an autumn, with the golden fruits of the earth hanging in rich clusters ready to be gathered – not like a winter. You may feel ever so worn, but you will not feel withered. You will die in peace, hoping for the spring – and such a spring!

When someone is grieving He had too much respect for sorrow to approach it with curiosity. He had learned to put off his shoes when he drew nigh the burning bush of human pain.

The good man never wrote or read a sermon, but talked to his people as one who would meet what was in them with what was in him.

Am I mystical again, reader? Then I hope you are too, or will be before you have done with this same beautiful mystical life of ours.

It was a troubled night, the last they spent in the castle. Not many slept. But the lord of it had long understood that what could cease to be his never had been his, and slept like a child.