Quotes from George Eliot
Justice is like the kingdom of God--it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
- George Eliot
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
- George Eliot
I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter about what I could never understand.
- George Eliot
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
- George Eliot
When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
- George Eliot
God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.
- George Eliot
They say fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit.
- George Eliot
It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.
- George Eliot
The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity.
- George Eliot
But, bless us, things may be lovable that are not altogether handsome, I hope?
- George Eliot
It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
- George Eliot
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
- George Eliot