“The man that feareth, Lord, to doubt, In that fear doubteth thee.” — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“It is the heart that is unsure of its God that is afraid to laugh.” — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I begin indeed to fear that I have undertaken an impossibility, undertaken to tell what I cannot tell because no speech at… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
there is no harm in being afraid. The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your master!… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it; and the man who can overcome his own… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“That which is the power and worth of life they must be, or die; and the vague consciousness of this makes them… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
It was foolish indeed - thus to run farther and farther from all who could help her, as if she had been… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
When I can no more stir my soul to move, and life is but the ashes of a fire; when I can… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The Lord never came to deliver men from the consequences of their sins while yet those sins remained...Yet men, loving their sins… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
We can walk without fear, full of hope and courage and strength to do His will, waiting for the endless good which… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“O, lack and doubt and fear can only come Because of plenty, confidence, and love! They are the shadow-forms about their feet,… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“I am always hearing. . . the sound of a far off song. I do not exactly know where it is, or… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“For, when we say that God is Love, do we teach men that their fear of him is groundless? No. As much… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“It is not alone the first beginnings of religion that are full of fear. So long as love is imperfect, there is… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Wherefore, we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“A mountain is a strange and awful thing. In old times, without knowing so much of their strangeness and awfulness as we… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“The thing that is unknown, yet known to be, will always be more or less formidable. When it is known as immeasurably… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“I do believe that when a man confesses to his neighbor and says he's sorry, he thinks more of him than he… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“No revelation can be other than partial. If for true revelation a man must be told all the truth, then farewell to revelation; yea,… — George MacDonald Copy Share
In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell. — George MacDonald Copy Share
The region belonging to the pure intellect is straitened: the imagination labours to extend its territories, to give it room. She sweeps across the… — George MacDonald Copy Share
Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy. — George MacDonald Copy Share
Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace? — George MacDonald Copy Share
You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave. — George MacDonald Copy Share
“Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly.” — George MacDonald Copy Share
“You have tasted of death now,” said the old man. “Is it good?” “It is good,” said Mossy. “It is better than life.” “No,”… — George MacDonald Copy Share
“I wish I had [made that song]. No, I don't That would be to take it from somebody else. But it's mine for all… — George MacDonald Copy Share
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. — George MacDonald Copy Share
I want to help you grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when he thought of you first. — George MacDonald Copy Share
“Immeasurably imperfect it was, but false the impression could not be, for she saw with the eyes made for seeing, and saw indeed what… — George MacDonald Copy Share
