If you care to see God, be pure. If you will not be pure, you will grow more and more impure. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Right gladly would He free them from their misery, but He knows only one way: He will teach them to be like… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
If you will not determine to be pure, you will grow more and more impure. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin. The only vengeance worth having on sin is… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin... wickedness has made you ugly. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“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 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
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
There is no inborn longing that shall not be fulfilled. I think that is as certain as the forgiveness of sins. — 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
To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth. — 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
![“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 that.' 'What makes it yours?' 'I love it so.' 'Does loving a thing make it yours?' 'I think so, Mother -- at least more than anything else can. . . . Love makes the only myness,' said…” quote by George MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/722/george-macdonald-295_love_i-wish-i-had-made-that-song-no-i-don-t-t_35103.jpg)
