God Quotes by George MacDonald

Which of us is other than a secret to all but God!

— George MacDonald

He (God) loves what I shall be.

— George MacDonald

“Where was God? In him and his question.”

— George MacDonald

All that is not God is death.

— George MacDonald

The whole trouble is that we won't let God help us.

— George MacDonald

“I am a beast until I love as God doth love.”

— George MacDonald

Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.

— George MacDonald

“Afflictions are but the shadow of His wings.”

— George MacDonald

“The man that feareth, Lord, to doubt, In that fear doubteth thee.”

— George MacDonald

My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am.

— George MacDonald

“That God only whom Christ reveals to the humble seeker, can ever satisfy human soul.”

— George MacDonald

In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably.

— George MacDonald

I want to help you grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when he thought of you first.

— George MacDonald

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

— George MacDonald

Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great.

— George MacDonald

All things are possible with God, but all things are not easy.

— George MacDonald

God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil…

— George MacDonald

God is the God of the animals in a far lovelier way, I suspect, than many of us dare to think, but…

— George MacDonald

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

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

“Verily the God that knows how not to reveal himself, must also know how best to reveal himself! If there be a…

— George MacDonald

I find the doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about his plans — I do not…

— George MacDonald

When I look like this into the blue sky, it seems so deep, so peaceful, so full of a mysterious tenderness, that…

— George MacDonald

God Himself - His thoughts, His will, His love, His judgments are men's home. To think His thoughts, to choose His will,…

— George MacDonald

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

“I should not be surprised," said Mr. Graham, "that the day should come when men will refuse to believe in God simply…

— George MacDonald

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

The perfection of His relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defeats, all our evils; for our childhood is…

— George MacDonald

“The claim that hung over him haunted his very life, turning the currents of his thought into channels of speculation unknown before.…

— George MacDonald

LET A MAN THINK AND CARE ever so little about God, he does not therefore exist without God. God is here with…

— George MacDonald

I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to…

— George MacDonald

“For others, as for ourselves, we must trust him. If we could thoroughly understand anything, that would be enough to prove it…

— George MacDonald

No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of…

— George MacDonald

“I fear you will never arrive at an understanding of God so long as you cannot bring yourself to see the good…

— George MacDonald

“...To trust in the strength of God in our weakness; to say, ‘I am weak: so let me be: God is strong;’…

— George MacDonald

“One of my greatest difficulties in consenting to think of religion was that I thought I should have to give up my…

— George MacDonald

God Himself - His thoughts, His will, His love, His judgments are men's home. To think His thoughts, to choose His will,…

— 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

“ Mary Magdalene With wandering eyes and aimless zeal, She hither, thither, goes; Her speech, her motions, all reveal A mind without…

— George MacDonald

Do not measure God's mind by your own.

— George MacDonald