But God lets men have their playthings, like the children they are, that they may learn to distinguish them from true possessions.… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Demands unknown before are continually being made upon the Christian: it is the ever fresh rousing and calling, asking and sending of… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“For when is the child the ideal child in our eyes and to our hearts? Is it not when with gentle hand… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Once more I say, the word used by St Paul does not imply that God adopts children that are not his own,… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Then, with a horror of pitiful amazement, she saw a great cross marked in two cruel stripes on his back; and the… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“It is terrible to represent God as unrelated to us in the way of appeal to his righteousness. How should he be… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
All those evil doctrines about God that work misery and madness have their origin in the brains of the wise and prudent,… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“She was a mother. One who is mother only to her own children is not a mother; she is only a woman… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“How could the Revisers choose this last reading, 'an heir through God,' and keep the word adoption? From the passage it is… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go.… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
We should teach our children to think no more of their bodies when dead than they do of their hair when cut… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I believe that no hell will be lacking which would help the just mercy of God to redeem his children. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Seek not that your sons and your daughters should not see visions, should not dream dreams; seek that they should see true… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“I fear you will never arrive at an understanding of God so long as you cannot bring yourself to see the good… — 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
He (God) can be revealed only to the child; perfectly, to the pure child only. All the discipline of the world is… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Verily the God that knows how not to reveal himself, must also know how best to reveal himself! If there be a… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“If any one thinks I am unfaithful to human fact, and overcharge the description of this child, I on my side doubt… — 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
“Often, no doubt, it will appear otherwise, for the childlike child is easier to save than the other, and may come first.… — 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
A man must learn to love his children, not because they are his, but because they are children, else his love will… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“The church grew very lonely about him, and he began to feel like a child whose mother has forsaken it. Only 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 Image
In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly.” — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
