George MacDonald Quotes
In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell.
The miracles of Jesus were the ordinary works of his Father, wrought small and swift that we might take them in.
There is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others: in the one case it is a continuous dying, in the other a continuous resurrection.
Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil.
If you care to see God, be pure. If you will not be pure, you will grow more and more impure.
Light-leaved acacias, by the door, Stood up in balmy air, Clusters of blossomed moonlight bore, And breathed a perfume rare.
The Root of All Rebellion: It is because we are not near enough to Thee to partake of thy liberty that we want a liberty of our own different from thine.
there is no harm in being afraid. The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your master! Laugh in his face and he will run away.
The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you.
All those evil doctrines about God that work misery and madness have their origin in the brains of the wise and prudent, not in the hearts of children.
To love righteousness is to make it grow, not to avenge it. Throughout his life on earth, Jesus resisted every impulse to work more rapidly for a lower good.
Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not.
When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over
Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin. The only vengeance worth having on sin is to make the sinner himself its executioner.
I am so tried by the things said about God. I understand God's patience with the wicked, but I do wonder how he can be so patient with the pious!
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.
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
I came from God, and I'm going back to God, and I won't have any gaps of death in the middle of my life.
Come, come to Him who made thy heart; Come weary and oppressed; To come to Jesus is thy part; His part, to give thee rest.
Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.
I say again, if I cannot draw a horse, I will not write THIS IS A HORSE under what I foolishly meant for one.
We can walk without fear, full of hope and courage and strength to do His will, waiting for the endless good which He is always giving as fast as He can get us able to take it in.
It is a happy thing for us that this is really all we have to concern ourselves about--what to do next. No man can do the second thing. He can do the first.
Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.
Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society.
Well, perhaps; but I begin to think there are better things than being comfortable.
No, there is no escape. There is no heaven with a little of hell in it--no plan to retain this or that of the devil in our hearts or our pockets. Out Satan must go, every hair and feather!
