J. E. H. MacDonald Quotes

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

He that searches for praise will often find contempt.

I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write.

If you care to see God, be pure. If you will not be pure, you will grow more and more impure.

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.

You doubt because you love truth.

Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.

The people do not mind fornication but they loathe adultery.

It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.

Reason is always weak where prejudice is strong.

A new Member requires the experience of his first session in the House to teach him how to hang up his overcoat and take his seat in a manner befitting a gentlemen.

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 holy spirit of the Spring Is working silently.

Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.

Competing loves are detected in the gap between saying and doing.

There are women who fly their falcons at any game, little birds and all.

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.

A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.

The Christian way is a life of faith. In order to hold on to the promises of God, you've got to believe them and live by them.

Light-leaved acacias, by the door, Stood up in balmy air, Clusters of blossomed moonlight bore, And breathed a perfume rare.

No man has the mind of Christ, except him who makes it his business to obey him.

I'm nervous... but I'm not going to fear what I'm about to do, I'm going to take it head on and I'm going to conquer it.

To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.

Obedience is the key to every door.

When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the family know that. They make allowances for the one in trouble.

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.

I follow my instincts and my excitement.

[To] me organized religion, the formalities and routines, [is] like being marched in formation to look at a sunset.

If you would be thrilled by watching the galloping advance of a major glacier, you'd be ecstatic watching changes in publishing.

Anything big enough to occupy our minds is big enough to hang a prayer on.

It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you.

It's no good telling somebody they're trying too hard. It's very much like ordering a child to go stand in a corner for a half hour and never once think about elephants.

Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.

Endurance must conquer, where force could not reach.

Most men appear wiser in their doubts than in their belief.

The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.

I generally have a real strong idea or a strong punchline, and I just try to get to it by rambling around, as I don't like to memorize words.

While we wait, God builds our faith in His promises.

Be you and I think people will recognize the special things about yourself. Just be you, and be you to the fullest.

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.

I recognize that losing is a part of growth in this sport and it's a positive thing in the long run.

The first thing in all progress is to leave something behind.

It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because

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.

They're like ''You're an alcoholic.'' I go ''No, I'm not.'' and then-apparently that's what alcoholics say too, you know?

By all means rid yourself of an impoverished faith.

I have memories of the clearest crystal mountain days imaginable, when we fortunates in the height seemed to be sky people living in light alone.

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.

Doubt is a lack of confidence or assurance that God will keep his promises. Faith is an active confidence that God's promises are always true.