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Commonplaces
Piquant excerpts lifted from Touchstone editors' own reading & listening.
Those who by insincerity and falsehood close their deeper eyes, shall not be capable of using in the matter the more superficial eyes of their understanding. . . .
A man may be haunted with doubts, and only grow thereby in faith. Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of things that are not yet, but have to be, understood. . . . Doubt must precede every deeper assurance, for uncertainties are what we first see when we look into a region hitherto unknown, unexplored, unannexed.
—George MacDonald
from "The Last Farthing" and "The Voice of Job," Unspoken Sermons, second series (1885)
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