I want to help you grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when he thought of you first. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
When I look like this into the blue sky, it seems so deep, so peaceful, so full of a mysterious tenderness, that… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“The necessary unlikeness between the creator and the created holds within it the equally necessary likeness of the thing made to him… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
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
LET A MAN THINK AND CARE ever so little about God, he does not therefore exist without God. God is here with… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“That God only whom Christ reveals to the humble seeker, can ever satisfy human soul.” — 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
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
God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The purposes of God point to one simple end-that we should be as he is, think the same thoughts, mean the same… — 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
“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
“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
I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
God is the God of the animals in a far lovelier way, I suspect, than many of us dare to think, but… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I find the doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about his plans — I do not… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“ Mary Magdalene With wandering eyes and aimless zeal, She hither, thither, goes; Her speech, her motions, all reveal A mind without… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“The God who is ever uttering himself in the changeful profusions of nature; who takes millions of years to form a soul… — 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
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
What does God want me to do?”, not “What will God do if I do so and so? — 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
“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
