That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.


Novels of George Eliot: Middlemarch (ed. 1876)

George Eliot Quotes

That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power...

That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power...

That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power...

That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power...