J. E. H. MacDonald Quotes

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.

This is and has been the Father's work from the beginning-to bring us into the home of His heart.

To give truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation.

There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood.

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.

What you hope for determines what you live for. What you hope for determines WHO you live for. Hope misplaced can devastate you.

There are two things which a man should scrupulously avoid: giving advice that he would not follow, and asking advice when he is determined to pursue his own opinion.

Do not measure God's mind by your own.

The mind of the many is not the mind of God.

In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That's what I liked about math. You could figure it out, and the teacher couldn't have a stupid opinion about it.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

The principle part of faith is patience.

Praying is what confirms our true belief that we cannot succeed without God, and its absence confirms the exact opposite.

Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.

Beware of begging God for things you don't have to have.

Too many times we're looking for ways to get around deep waters and dangerous fires, rather than through them. Has this ever been your experience?

When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.

My dad died, and my grandfather died, and my great-grandfather died. And the guy before him, I don't know. Probably died.

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

To be kind neither hurts nor compromises.

Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer to the essential self.

Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them.

My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly.

All my life's about is cracking up people and them cracking me up and trying not to think about dying. That doesn't cost very much money.

I find the doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about his plans — I do not say for thinking about them.

If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction.

I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.

Give me better wood and I will make you a better cabinet.

The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.

If He wasn't going to use that hard thing for your good, it wouldn't have happened. He had to sign off on every single thing that touches your life.

We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament.

You'll face overwhelming odds; you'll be incredibly outnumbered. Fear would be your natural inclination. But keep in mind, God is with you.

Trust to God to weave your thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet.

When a man has done me an evil turn once, I don't like to give him the opportunity to do so twice.

Confederation is only yet in the gristle, and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.

It doesn't matter what has happened, better things are coming. God's plan produces hope in me.

I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.

Instead of loving your enemies, have no enemies to love.

Wars are popular. Contractors make profits; the aristocracy glean honour.

You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.

I got my computer. The great thing about the computer is that you only need enough money to buy a computer and some food, and you're all right. I don't have to go to premières.

The trade-unionist has the same limitation imposed upon him as the capitalist. He cannot advance his interests at the expense of society.

Don't miss God's fingerprints all over the events, lining up people and circumstances in perfect timing to preserve His people and advance His agenda.

The two pillars of 'political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth.

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.

It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.

There are two things at which most men are grieved: when their faults are exposed, and when their virtues are concealed.

A nonreader is somebody standing there in a blindfold.

I don't have everything I want but I have everything I need. That's contentment.