Not for a moment would I endeavor by argument to convince another of this, my opinion. If it be true, it is God’s work to show it, for logic cannot. . . .
Friends, I have not said we are not to speak our opinions. I have only said we are not to make those opinions the point of a fresh start, the foundation of a new building, the groundwork of anything. Opinions are not to occupy us in our dealings with our brethren.
Opinion is often the very death of love. Love aright, and you will come to think aright. And those who think aright must think the same.
In the meantime, it matters nothing. The thing that does matter is, that whereto we have attained, by that we should walk. But, while we are not to insist upon our opinions, which is the only one way of insisting upon ourselves — however we may cloak the fact from ourselves in the vain imagination of thereby spreading the truth — we are bound by the loftiest duty to spread the truth. For that is the saving of men. . . .
I do insist upon a better and the only indispensable way of spreading truth — let your light shine.
— George MacDonald, Your Life in Christ, p. 208-209