George MacDonald Quotes

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• If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of…
• God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father in Heaven.
• The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world just because it tells me the story of Jesus.
• Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.
• If you will not determine to be pure, you will grow more and more impure.
• In short, a man must be set free from the sin he is , which makes him do the sin he does .
• To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth.
• But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely…
• All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for...There seems no plan because it is…
• Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.
• Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace?
• No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were…
• God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the…
• As cold as everything looks in winter, the sun has not forsaken us. He has only drawn away for a little, for good reasons, one…
• Human science cannot discover God. Human science is but the backward undoing of the tapestry web of God's science. It works with its back to…
• God is nearer to you than any thought or feeling of yours... Do not be afraid.
• Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in…
• A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear
• If we do not die to ourselves, we cannot live to God, andhe that does not live to God, is dead.
• By all means rid yourself of an impoverished faith.

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