Not for a moment would I endeavor by argument to convince another of this, my opinion.\u00c2\u00a0 If it be true, it is God’s work to show it, for logic cannot. . . .<\/p>\n
Friends, I have not said we are not to speak our opinions.\u00c2\u00a0 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.\u00c2\u00a0 Opinions are not to occupy us in our dealings with our brethren.<\/em><\/p>\n Opinion is often the very death of love.\u00c2\u00a0 Love aright, and you will come to think aright.\u00c2\u00a0 And those who think aright must think the same.<\/p>\n In the meantime, it matters nothing.\u00c2\u00a0 The thing that does matter is, that whereto we have attained, by that we should walk.\u00c2\u00a0 But, while we are not to insist upon our opinions<\/em>, 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 <\/em>bound by the loftiest duty to spread the truth.\u00c2\u00a0 For that is the saving of men. . . .<\/p>\n I do insist upon a better and the only indispensable way of spreading truth — let your light shine.<\/p>\n — George MacDonald, Your Life in Christ, <\/em>p. 208-209<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Not for a moment would I endeavor by argument to convince another of this, my opinion.\u00c2\u00a0 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.\u00c2\u00a0 I have only said we are not to make those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love","category-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}