J. E. H. MacDonald Quotes

The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love.

Where did you come from, baby dear? Out of the everywhere and into here.

A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear

Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.

God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father in Heaven.

Oh the folly of any mind that would explain God before obeying Him! That would map out the character of God instead of crying, Lord, what wouldst thou have me to do?

In joy or sorrow, feebleness or might, Peace or commotion, be thou, Father, my delight.

Kenny G has a Christmas album out this year. Hey, happy birthday Jesus! Hope you like crap!

Let God Himself be the main attraction at church again.

Made a sketch later on the cabin verandah, but it was impossible to keep up with the changes. Oh the difficulties of mountain art for too little genius.

Piece by piece living is hard to do. It may even feel like the hardest thing. But it has this going for it: you never need to know what it is you're carrying on your shoulders.

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.

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!

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

Maturity is a stage of life when you don't see eye to eye but can walk arm in arm.

Worriers spend a lot of time shoveling smoke.

If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.

Religion is life essential.

Man's rank is his power to uplift.

He who is faithful over a few things is a lord of cities. It does not matter whether you preach in Westminster Abbey or teach a ragged class, so you be faithful. The faithfulness is all.

I was tired of illustration. You'd work so hard on a commission and it would go in to a magazine, and you'd turn the page and it was gone.

The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world, because it tells me his story; and what good men thought about him who knew him and accepted him.

You might not think it now, but if you're one of God's children, you're going to figure it out by the end of your life God is good.

Moderation is the basis of justice.

Were there no fools, there would be no flatterers.

The character of giving advice often makes us accountable for the conduct of those we advise.

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.

There are things that must be done in faith, else they never have being.

Golf is to me what his Sabine farm was to the poet Horace - a solace and an inspiration.

I guess [Richard] Pryor was that good. I never saw him in a theater, but I imagine he was that good, because he was such a phenomenal actor.

Never be discouraged because good things get on so slowly here; and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand.

Tomorrow every Duchess in London will be waiting to kiss me.

Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.

You can't love your team without hating another team.

A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.

All that is not God is death.

As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.

The region of the senses is the unbelieving part of the human soul.

I wondered over again for the hundredth time what could be the principle which, in the wildest, most lawless, fantastically chaotic, apparently capricious work of Nature, always kept it beautiful.

The birds, the poets of the animal creation - what though they never get beyond the lyrical! - awoke to utter their own joy, and awake like joy in others of God's children.

No story ever really ends, and I think I know why.

Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.

I dare not say with Paul that I am the slave of Christ, but my highest aspiration and desire is to be the slave of Christ.

Our prayer must be, "Father, I'm waiting for You because I know You are good in what You do and in when you do it.

Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.

Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life. the latter may be an impulse of a moment of heat; whereas the former is a cold and deliberate choice of the heart.

God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it.