George MacDonald Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by George MacDonald
George MacDonald Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not.
Never was there a more injurous mistake than to say it was the
business only of the clergy to care for souls.
business only of the clergy to care for souls.
Where is the good of planning upon an "if?" To trust is to get ready, uncle says. Trust is better than foresight.
That which is within a man, not that which lies beyond his vision, is the main factor in what is about to befall him:
The more people trust in God, the less will they trust their own judgments, or interfere with the ordering of events.
This is in the very nature of things: obedience alone places a man in the position in which he can see so as to judge that which is above him.
They will pressure you into doing things that may be unsafe, use your good judgment, and remember, 'I would rather be laughed at, than cried for.'
I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow.
Grave doubts as to whether I was in my place in the church, would keep rising and floating about, like rain-clouds within me.
Nobody does anything bad all at once. Wickedness needs an apprenticeship as well as more difficult trades.
As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed in genuine refinement.
In moments of doubt I cry, 'Could God Himself create such lovely things as I dreamed?'
'Whence then came thy dream?' answers Hope.
'Whence then came thy dream?' answers Hope.
She began to learn that nothing is dead, that there cannot be a physical abstraction, that nothing exists for the sake of the laws of its phenomena.
The honour is to be a servant of men, whom God thought worth making, worth allowing to sin, and worth helping out of it at such a cost.
The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it; and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more.
If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either.
Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.
I dare not say with Paul that I am the slave of Christ, but my highest aspiration and desire is to be the slave of Christ.
A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.
Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin ... wickedness has made you ugly.
That's all nonsense," said Curdie. "I don't know what you mean."
"Then if you don't know what I mean, what right have you to call it nonsense?
"Then if you don't know what I mean, what right have you to call it nonsense?
For God alone is our salvation; to know him is salvation. He is in us all the time, else we could never move to seek him.
Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.
I believe that no hell will be lacking which would help the just mercy of God to redeem his children.
For the greatest fool and rascal in creation there is yet a worse condition; and that is, not to know it, but to think himself a respectable man.
True business can never be left in any shop. It is a care, white or black, that sits behind every horseman.
It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.
The purposes of God point to one simple end-that we should be as he is, think the same thoughts, mean the same things, possess the same blessedness.
Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure.
The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world just because it tells me the story of Jesus.
For this, deep waters whelm the fruitful lea, Wars ravage, famine wastes, plague withers, nor Shall cease till men have chosen the better part.
One of the grandest things in having rights is, that though they are your rights you may give them up
It is as necessary for a poor man to give away, as for a rich man. Many poor men are more devoted worshipers of Mammon than some rich men.
One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.
If man could do what in his wildest self-worship he can imagine, the grand result would be that he would be his own God, which is the Hell of Hells.
Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue.
I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.
The year's fruit must fall that the next year's may come, and the winter is the only way to the spring.
He had come to think that so long as a man wants to do right he may go where he can: when he can go no further, then it is not the way.
A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.
But a man may then imagine in your work what he pleases, what you never meant!
Not what he pleases, but what he can.
Not what he pleases, but what he can.
The question is not at present, however, of removing mountains, a thing that will one day be simple to us, but of waking and rising from the dead now.
And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay.
His little heart was so full of merriment that it could not hold it all, and it ran over into theirs.
There is no inborn longing that shall not be fulfilled. I think that is as certain as the forgiveness of sins.
Every soul has a landscape that changes with the wind that sweeps the sky, with the clouds that return after its rain.