Christianity Quotes by George MacDonald

“We are and remain such creeping Christians, because we look at ourselves and not at Christ;”

— George MacDonald

It is the half-Christian clergy of every denomination that are the main cause of the so-called failure of the church of Christ

— George MacDonald

“For Christianity does not mean what you think or what I think concerning Christ, but what IS OF Christ. My”

— George MacDonald

If we do not die to ourselves, we cannot live to God, andhe that does not live to God, is dead.

— George MacDonald

“In the hardest winter the roots are sill alive in the frozen ground.”

— George MacDonald

You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to…

— George MacDonald

If those who had set themselves to explain the various theories of Christianity had set themselves instead to do the will of…

— George MacDonald

“The man who takes no count of what is fair, friendly, pure, unselfish, lovely, gracious,—where is his claim to call Jesus his…

— George MacDonald

A man may sink by such slow degrees that, long after he is a devil, he may go on being a good…

— George MacDonald

The whole history of the Christian life is a series of resurrections. . . . Every time we find our hearts are…

— George MacDonald

“No gift unrecognized as coming from God is at its own best: therefore many things that God would gladly give us, things…

— George MacDonald

Those Christians who are very strict in their observances, think a good deal more of the Sabbath than of man, a great…

— George MacDonald

Except the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ Jesus make a man sick of…

— George MacDonald

We are and remain such creeping Christians, because we look at ourselves and not at Christ; because we gaze at the marks…

— George MacDonald

“Where people know their work and do it, life has few blank spaces for boredom and they are seldom to be pitied.…

— George MacDonald

“The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self, where we mope and mow, striking sparks,…

— George MacDonald

“The God who is ever uttering himself in the changeful profusions of nature; who takes millions of years to form a soul…

— George MacDonald

“To let their light shine, not to force on them their interpretations of God's designs, is the duty of Christians towards their…

— George MacDonald