George MacDonald Quotes About Duty
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It is a happy thing for us that this is really all we have to concern ourselves about--what to do next. No man can do the second thing. He can do the first.
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The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
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The word doctrine, as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.
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You would not think any duty small, If you yourself were great.
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What honest boy would pride himself on not picking pockets ? A thief who was trying to reform would. To be conceited of doing one's duty is then a sign of how little one does it, and how little one sees what a contemptible thing it is not to do it. Could any but a low creature be conceited of not being contemptible? Until our duty becomes to us common as breathing, we are poor creatures.
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I firmly believe people have hitherto been a great deal too much taken up about doctrine and far too little about practice. The word "doctrine," as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.
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The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love.
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