When a homemaking aunt scolds a niece for following her evangelistic passion instead of domestic pursuits, her reply is interesting. First, she clarifies that God's individual call on her doesn't condemn those in more conventional roles. Then, she says she can no more ignore the cry of the lost than her aunt can the cry of her child.
Weitere Zitate von George Eliot
Zum Autor"Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through."
"Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music."
"Excellence encourages one about life generally it shows the spiritual wealth of the world."
"It's but little good you'll go a-water-ing the last year's crop."
"College mostly makes people like bladders—just good for nothing but t’ hold the stuff as is poured into ‘em."
"It is just that I don’t know how I could live without the hope of her. It would be like learning to live with wooden legs."