J. E. H. MacDonald Quotes

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

Attitudes are more important than facts.

A rebellion against God, even as believers, is fueled by the toxic fumes of unbelief.

All thinking is done with the glands. Logic is added later to tidy things up.

Only when we have done all we knew to do can we wait by faith for God to do what only He can do.

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.

Repentance is the key that unlocks the door to all that God has for us, but it is not easy.

Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.

Faith is obedience, not compliance.

Depression is anger slowed down; panic is grief speeded up.

Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.

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.

There's a lot of nerves. It all goes away though once they say "fight".

Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.

The most frequent cause of regret for what we have done is because its effects interfere with what we would do.

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

All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.

God is nearer to you than any thought or feeling of yours... Do not be afraid.

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!

Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.

Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.

[God's] purposes are always accomplished. His enemies are always defeated. His faithful followers are always rewarded. His Son's throne will be established forever.

While you can't keep fear from visiting, you can slam the door in its face. With God's promise in your hand, that's exactly what you are able to do.

What does God want me to do?”, not “What will God do if I do so and so?

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.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

God's finger can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness.

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.

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 would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion.

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.

Opportunity is a bird that never perches.

Church was never intended to be a place where we serve God to the exclusion of meeting with Him.

Now it stands to reason, mister, any damn fool stares into the sun long enough, he'll end up seeing exactly what some other damn fool tells him he's going to see.

This fight is not going to be over in 10 minutes or 10 weeks; there's no quick solution. If you think it's taking too long, remember, God is with you.

The whole trouble is that we won't let God help us.

a grudge will soon rot the pocket you carry it in.

The man that does not fear punishment, little regards crime.

Liberty, like health, appears most precious when lost.

Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.

This would have been a great game to watch if we didn't have any money on it.

We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge.

Whether you realize it or not, your ongoing battle with unbelief drives all your sinful thoughts, emotions, desires, and actions.

You can't teach a person to love something. But you can get him to feel the heat of your love for something.

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!

As evacuation eases the body, so occasional ejectment of passion seems to appease the agonies of the soul, and dispose to tranquility the agitations of the heart.

I'm sure that people must say about me, on the screen, 'Good gracious, is Jeanette MacDonald going to take off her clothes - again?

If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw.

If you're wrong in the way you're right, you're wrong even if you're right.