Olive Schreiner Quote

Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one that we made for ourselves, that we loved; but now he has flitted away from us, and we see what he was made of - the shadow of our highest ideal, crowned and throned. Now we have no God.


A track to the water's edge: the Olive Schreiner reader (ed. HarperCollins Publishers, 1973)


Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one that we made for...

Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one that we made for...

Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one that we made for...

Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one that we made for...