Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The kingdom of heaven is not come even when God's will is our law; it is fully come when God's will is… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Anything big enough to occupy our minds is big enough to hang a prayer on. — 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
“And why should the good of anyone depend on the prayer of another? I can only answer with the return question, 'Why… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“I can but pray the Father o' a' to haud his e'e upon her, an' his airms aboot her, an' keep aff… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“...when the children had made sparrows of clay, Thou mad'st them birds, with wings to flutter and fold: Take, Lord, my prayer… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Do you think you love your children better than He who made them? Is not your love what it is because He… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
[God desires] not that He may say to them, "Look how mighty I am, and go down upon your knees and worship,"… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
But if God is so good as you represent Him, and if He knows all that we need, and better far than… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
He may delay because it would not be safe to give us at once what we ask: we are not ready for… — 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
“No gift unrecognized as coming from God is at its own best: therefore many things that God would gladly give us, things… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“In that ugly building, amidst that weary praying and inharmonious singing, with that blatant tone, and, worse than all, that merciless doctrine,… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“What Gibbie made of Mr. Sclater's prayers, either in congregational or family devotion, I am at some loss to imagine. Beside his… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“you understood any world besides your own, you would understand your own much better.—When a heart is really alive, then it 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
“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
“Remember, if indeed thou art able to know it, that not in any church is the service done that he requires. 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
![“[God desires] not that He may say to them, "Look how mighty I am, and go down upon your knees and worship," for power alone was never yet worthy of prayer; but that He may say thus: "Look, my children, you will never be strong but with my strength. I have no other to give you. And that you can get…” quote by George MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ad4/george-macdonald-295_can-not_god-desires-not-that-he-may-say-to-them_2732298.png)
