Parenting Quotes by George MacDonald

“She was a mother. One who is mother only to her own children is not a mother; she is only a woman…

— George MacDonald

“But the praises of father or mother do our Selves good, and comfort them and make them beautiful.”

— George MacDonald

If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement…

— 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

In joy or sorrow, feebleness or might, Peace or commotion, be thou, Father, my delight.

— George MacDonald

The miracles of Jesus were the ordinary works of his Father, wrought small and swift that we might take them in.

— 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

“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

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

The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go.…

— George MacDonald

“No one, however strong he may feel his obligations, will ever be man enough to fulfill them except that he be a…

— George MacDonald

“It is not at all a fit place for you ," said Clementina. "Gently, my lady. It is a greater than thou…

— George MacDonald

“But her mother was one of those weakest of women who can never forget the beauty they once possessed, or quite believe…

— George MacDonald

“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

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

— George MacDonald

“No, there is no escape. There is no heaven with a little of hell in it - no place to retain this…

— George MacDonald

“The one use of the Bible is to make us look at Jesus, that through him we might know his Father and…

— George MacDonald

“Is it possible that even then he thought of the lost sheep who could not believe that God was their Father; and…

— George MacDonald

“Once more I say, the word used by St Paul does not imply that God adopts children that are not his own,…

— George MacDonald

The face of the Son of God, who, instead of accepting the sacrifice of one of his creatures to satisfy his justice…

— George MacDonald

He may delay because it would not be safe to give us at once what we ask: we are not ready for…

— George MacDonald

“As the love of him who is love transcends ours as the heavens are higher than the earth, so must he desire…

— George MacDonald

“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

“The Lord of gladness delights in the laughter of a merry heart. These wedding guests could have done without wine, surely without…

— George MacDonald

“The air was still; when a breath awoke, it but touched his cheek like the down of a feather, and the stillness…

— George MacDonald

“Then came the reflection, how little at any time could a father do for the wellbeing of his children! The fact of…

— George MacDonald

“Ah, but,' says the partisan of God, 'the Almighty stands in a relation very different from that of an earthly father: there…

— George MacDonald

“How could the Revisers choose this last reading, 'an heir through God,' and keep the word adoption? From the passage it is…

— George MacDonald

“Such words are pleasing in the ear of the father of spirits. He is not a God to accept the flattery which…

— George MacDonald

“It is terrible to represent God as unrelated to us in the way of appeal to his righteousness. How should he be…

— George MacDonald

“The aspiring child is often checked by the dull disciple who has learned his lessons so imperfectly that he has never got…

— 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

“In the windowless tomb of a blind mother, in the dead of the night, under feeble rays of a lamp in an…

— George MacDonald

“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

Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.

— George MacDonald

“To do as God does, is to receive God; to do a service to one of his children is to receive the…

— George MacDonald

God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father…

— George MacDonald

“But I don't quite understand, Father: is nobody your friend but the one that does something for you?”

— George MacDonald

“The church grew very lonely about him, and he began to feel like a child whose mother has forsaken it. Only he…

— George MacDonald

O Christ, my life, possess me utterly. Take me and make a little Christ of me. If I am anything but thy…

— George MacDonald