Inspirational Quotes by George MacDonald

Endurance must conquer, where force could not reach.

— George MacDonald

Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.

— George MacDonald

Obedience is the key to every door.

— George MacDonald

By all means rid yourself of an impoverished faith.

— George MacDonald

A true friend is forever a friend.

— George MacDonald

The first thing in all progress is to leave something behind.

— George MacDonald

To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.

— George MacDonald

What would the Living One have me do?

— George MacDonald

As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God.

— George MacDonald

Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the one thing hated.

— George MacDonald

And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing towards decay.

— George MacDonald

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

— George MacDonald

This is and has been the Father's work from the beginning-to bring us into the home of His heart.

— 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 short, a man must be set free from the sin he is , which makes him do the sin he does .

— George MacDonald

We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We have a body." George Macdonald, 1892

— George MacDonald

“For when is the child the ideal child in our eyes and to our hearts? Is it not when with gentle hand…

— George MacDonald

“With every morn my life afresh must break The crust of self, gathered about me fresh; That thy wind-spirit may rush in…

— George MacDonald

The seed dies into a new life, and so does man.

— George MacDonald

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

— George MacDonald

Life and religion are one, or neither is any thing.

— George MacDonald

He (God) loves what I shall be.

— George MacDonald

Beauty and sadness always go together.

— George MacDonald

Every truth must be accompanied by some corresponding act.

— George MacDonald

Do not measure God's mind by your own.

— George MacDonald

A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear

— George MacDonald

Man's rank is his power to uplift.

— George MacDonald

The mind of the many is not the mind of God.

— George MacDonald

It is only by loving a thing that you can make it yours.

— George MacDonald

Where did you come from, baby dear? Out of the everywhere and into here.

— George MacDonald

What does God want me to do?”, not “What will God do if I do so and so?

— George MacDonald

Good souls many will one day be horrified at the things they now believe of God.

— George MacDonald

He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not…

— George MacDonald

If you will not determine to be pure, you will grow more and more impure.

— George MacDonald

No man has the mind of Christ, except him who makes it his business to obey him.

— George MacDonald

Trust to God to weave your thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet.

— George MacDonald

I only know when I don't know a thing... . wisdom lies in that.

— George MacDonald

There are things that must be done in faith, else they never have being.

— George MacDonald