If you care to see God, be pure. If you will not be pure, you will grow more and more impure. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
What does God want me to do?”, not “What will God do if I do so and so? — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
There is no slave but the creature that wills against its Creator. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“...he believed in God and he believed that when the human is still, the Divine speaks to it, because it is its… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give,… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
A voice is in the wind I do not know A meaning on the face of the high hills Whose utterance I… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
We have to do with God, to whom no one can look without the need of being good waking up in his… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“God is God to us not that we may say he is, but that we may know him; and when we know… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The perfection of His relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defeats, all our evils; for our childhood is… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
God hides nothing. His very work from the beginning is revelation--a casting aside of veil after veil, a showing unto men of… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“The claim that hung over him haunted his very life, turning the currents of his thought into channels of speculation unknown before.… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The face of the Son of God, who, instead of accepting the sacrifice of one of his creatures to satisfy his justice… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“That man is perfect in faith who can come to God in the utter dearth of his feelings and his desires, without… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“O Lord, I have been talking to the people; Thought's wheels have round me whirled a fiery zone And the recoil of… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Foolish is the man, and there are many such men, who would rid himself or his fellows of discomfort by setting the… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Love loves unto purity. Love has ever in view the absolute loveliness of that which it beholds. Therefore all that is not… — 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
