Zitat des Tages von George MacDonald:
Attitudes are more important than facts.
I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.
We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.
The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.
When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.
Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.
Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.
It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.
Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.
There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes.
It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.
How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.
To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.
You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.