J. E. H. MacDonald Quotes

I'm a huge sports fan but have no interest in minutiae. I don't remember who won Super Bowls five years ago or listen to sports talk radio.

All things are possible with God, but all things are not easy.

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

A great cause of evil in the world is that men seldom think themselves criminal if they offer the same injustice to others that has been successfully practiced on themselves.

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

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

When God promises, He's not saying, I'll try. He means, I can and I will.

The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters.

I want to be a part of the grand plan. Being on board with God's objectives means I understand that this is not about me.

Beauty and sadness always go together.

To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one!

I am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary religious being. In the most practical of all matters he will talk and speculate and try to feel, but he will not set himself to do.

The object of a bunker or trap is not only to punish a physical mistake, to punish lack of control, but also to punish pride and egotism.

It may be an infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may be the act of a moment of passion: the latter is the heart’s choice.

Many people are skeptical about marriage of Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Pressley. They say, Lisa Marie is more of a sit at home type, while Michael Jackson is more of a homosexual pedophile.

We hear war called murder. It is not; it is suicide.

You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.

You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected.

A man with a credit card is in hock to his own image of himself.

Politics is a game requiring great coolness.

When it's personal and painful, humble yourself.

We advise others better than ourselves.

Past tears are present strength.

My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am.

The joy a person is usually seen to express at the conversion of another to his opinion is seldom more than the impulse of egotistical satisfaction at being considered worthy of didactic imitation.

With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.

Fear is the contradiction of faith. Faith says, Whatever it is, it'll be okay because of God.

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

I can't believe how blessed I am! I'm married to the most wonderful man, Gene Raymond, whom I'm deeply in love with, and, my career is right where I want it to be. I can live like this forever!

The coffee was so strong it snarled as it lurched out of the pot.

Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.

They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.

In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers we daily escape.

In golf, a player can step and mar the line of his adversary's putt. A player can also hit his adversary or his caddie intentionally with his ball and claim the hole - but it isn't usually done.

It's important to attend funerals. It is important to view the body, they say, and to see it committed to earth or fire because unless you do that, the loved one dies for you again and again.

Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.

We are not made for law, we are made for love.

In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell.

Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.

Fear is faithlessness.

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

Society goes on and on and on. It is the same with ideas.

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.

There are certain families whose members should all live in different towns - different states, if possible - and write each other letters once a year.

Humility is losing yourself in the doing of serving.

Jesus washing the disciples feet is the most supreme act of humility in all of God’s word.