But love is the first comforter, and where love and truth speak, the love will be felt where the truth is never perceived. Love indeed is the highest in all truth; and the pressure of a hand, a kiss, the caress of a child, will do more to save sometimes than the wisest argument, even rightly understood. Love alone is wisdom, love alone is power; and where love seems to faint it is where self has stepped between and dulled the potency of its rays.
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This is a great quote - quintessential MacDonald. I love his novels. So many times there is a character in his stories who is simple minded yet wise in love. It is from MacDonald's novels that I was first confronted by the idea that it is more important to be good than to be right.
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