“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
“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
God Himself - His thoughts, His will, His love, His judgments are men's home. To think His thoughts, to choose His will,… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
A God must have a God for company. And lo! thou hast the Son-God to thy friend. Thou honour'st his obedience, he… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I am so tried by the things said about God. I understand God's patience with the wicked, but I do wonder how… — 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
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
It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“For others, as for ourselves, we must trust him. If we could thoroughly understand anything, that would be enough to prove it… — 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
“...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
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
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
“I should not be surprised," said Mr. Graham, "that the day should come when men will refuse to believe in God simply… — 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
“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
There is no slave but the creature that wills against its Creator. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“...To trust in the strength of God in our weakness; to say, ‘I am weak: so let me be: God is strong;’… — 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
