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
“The one use of the Bible is to make us look at Jesus, that through him we might know his Father and… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Why don't you go on, Mother dear?' he asked. 'It's such nonsense!' said his mother. 'I believe it would go on for… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“For when is the child the ideal child in our eyes and to our hearts? Is it not when with gentle hand… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“How kind is weariness sometimes! It is like the Father's hand laid a little heavy on the heart to make it still.” — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Once more I say, the word used by St Paul does not imply that God adopts children that are not his own,… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“It is not at all a fit place for you ," said Clementina. "Gently, my lady. It is a greater than thou… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“It is terrible to represent God as unrelated to us in the way of appeal to his righteousness. How should he be… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“But I don't quite understand, Father: is nobody your friend but the one that does something for you?” — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“She was a mother. One who is mother only to her own children is not a mother; she is only a woman… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“How could the Revisers choose this last reading, 'an heir through God,' and keep the word adoption? From the passage it is… — 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
“The air was still; when a breath awoke, it but touched his cheek like the down of a feather, and the stillness… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“No, there is no escape. There is no heaven with a little of hell in it - no place to retain this… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go.… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The miracles of Jesus were the ordinary works of his Father, wrought small and swift that we might take them in. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“I can but pray the Father o' a' to haud his e'e upon her, an' his airms aboot her, an' keep aff… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Is it possible that even then he thought of the lost sheep who could not believe that God was their Father; and… — 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
“Such words are pleasing in the ear of the father of spirits. He is not a God to accept the flattery which… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“God is all right—why should we mind standing in the dark for a minute outside his window? Of course we miss the… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Those are not the tears of repentance!... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
O Christ, my life, possess me utterly. Take me and make a little Christ of me. If I am anything but thy… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not… — 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
