Here’s an except from a sermon Alone With God by George MacDonald.
“If there never be a silence in the soul, and a man goes on always with his own thoughts and schemes and endeavors, it brings about a moral and spiritual madness. That is tenfold worse than mere madness of the brain, when a man judges everything by false ways, puts a wrong value upon everything, thinks little of great things and much of little things . . .
“There comes a silence every now and then; and God makes it just to put a stop to this kind of thing, and give Himself a chance of speaking. Do you not believe, or can you believe, that there is all about us, and in us, an infinite thought; that the atmosphere in which we live and breathe, as the fishes live and breathe in the sea, is thought, and that thought is the thought of One, and that One is the thought whence we came — that is the thinking God, thinking always?”
