Religion Quotes by George MacDonald

Religion is life essential.

— George MacDonald

By all means rid yourself of an impoverished faith.

— George MacDonald

The holy spirit of the Spring Is working silently.

— George MacDonald

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

— George MacDonald

The principle part of faith is patience.

— George MacDonald

Faith is obedience, not compliance.

— George MacDonald

A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear

— George MacDonald

To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.

— George MacDonald

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

— George MacDonald

“We are and remain such creeping Christians, because we look at ourselves and not at Christ;”

— George MacDonald

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

— George MacDonald

The kingdom of heaven is not come even when God's will is our law; it is fully come when God's will is…

— George MacDonald

It's right to trust in God; but, if you don't stand to your halliards your craft'll miss stays, and your faith'll be…

— George MacDonald

One chief cause of the amount of unbelief in the world is tha tthose who have seen something of the glory of…

— George MacDonald

One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.

— George MacDonald

If those who had set themselves to explain the various theories of Christianity had set themselves instead to do the will of…

— George MacDonald

“Our Lord speaks of many coming up to His door confident of admission, whom He yet sends away. Faith is obedience, not…

— George MacDonald

I am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary religious being. In the most practical of all matters he will talk and…

— George MacDonald

This is a wise, sane Christian faith: that a man commit himself, his life, and his hopes to God; that God undertakes…

— George MacDonald

But if God is so good as you represent Him, and if He knows all that we need, and better far than…

— George MacDonald

The whole history of the Christian life is a series of resurrections. . . . Every time we find our hearts are…

— George MacDonald

You've got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of your neighbors if they will let you; and for…

— George MacDonald

“But the more familiar one becomes with any religious system, while yet the conscience and will are unawakened and obedience has not…

— George MacDonald

The truly wise talk little about religion and are not given to taking sides on doctrinal issues. When they hear people advocating…

— George MacDonald

“It is not alone the first beginnings of religion that are full of fear. So long as love is imperfect, there is…

— George MacDonald

“entrance of the Rev. Clement Sclater -- the minister of her parish, recently appointed. He was a man between young and middle-aged,…

— George MacDonald

Sad, indeed, would the whole matter be if the Bible had told us everything God meant us to believe. But herein is…

— 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

In very truth, a wise imagination, which is the presence of the spirit of God, is the best guide that man or…

— George MacDonald

“What Gibbie made of Mr. Sclater's prayers, either in congregational or family devotion, I am at some loss to imagine. Beside his…

— George MacDonald

“The main practical difficulty, with some at least of the Peace-makers, is how to carry themselves toward the undoers of peace, the…

— George MacDonald

“But how is one to tell whether it be in truth the spirit of God that is speaking in a man?' You…

— George MacDonald

“I would never speak about faith, but speak about the Lord himself - not theologically, as to the why and wherefore of…

— George MacDonald

“Remember, if indeed thou art able to know it, that not in any church is the service done that he requires. He…

— George MacDonald

“The thing that is unknown, yet known to be, will always be more or less formidable. When it is known as immeasurably…

— 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

We profess to think Jesus the grandest and most glorious of men, yet hardly care to be like him. When we are…

— George MacDonald

“Understanding is the reward of obedience. Obedience is the key to every door. I am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary…

— George MacDonald

“Our minds are small because they are faithless,' I said to myself. 'If we had faith in God our hearts would share…

— George MacDonald

“Spiritual Murder It may be an infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may…

— George MacDonald