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
Things come to the poor that can't get in at the door of the rich. Their money somehow blocks it up. It… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
In short, a man must be set free from the sin he is , which makes him do the sin he does . — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The ruin of a man's teaching comes of his followers, such as having never touched the foundation he has laid, build upon… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Common people, whether lords or shop-keepers, are slow to understand that possession, whether in the shape of birth or lands or money… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it; and the man who can overcome his own… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
A man is in bondage to whatever he cannot part with that is less than himself. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
For this, deep waters whelm the fruitful lea, Wars ravage, famine wastes, plague withers, nor Shall cease till men have chosen the… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best… — 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
To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie against… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Those Christians who are very strict in their observances, think a good deal more of the Sabbath than of man, a great… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
A man must learn to love his children, not because they are his, but because they are children, else his love will… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer. — 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
The part of the philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour good must first study… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
To free a man from suffering, he must be set right, put in health; and the health at the root of man's… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The truly wise talk little about religion and are not given to taking sides on doctrinal issues. When they hear people advocating… — 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
To the dim and bewildered vision of humanity, God's care is more evident in some instances than in others; and upon such… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The Lord never came to deliver men from the consequences of their sins while yet those sins remained...Yet men, loving their sins… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
A man may sink by such slow degrees that, long after he is a devil, he may go on being a good… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
It is not the high summer alone that is God's. The winter also is His. And into His winter He came to… — 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
