George MacDonald Quotes - Page 7

• God's finger can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness.

  George MacDonald

  Mold, Fingers, Loveliness

  George MacDonald (1989). “Discovering the character of God”, Bethany House Pub

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• We can walk without fear, full of hope and courage and strength to do His will, waiting for the endless good which He is always giving as fast as He can get us able to take it in.

  George MacDonald

  Giving, Waiting, Able

  George MacDonald (1867). “Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood”, p.135

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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 his existence.

  George MacDonald

  Atheist, If There Is A God, Atheism

  George MacDonald (2015). “THOMAS WINGFOLD, CURATE + PAUL FABER, SURGEON + THERE AND BACK - The Complete Series: The Curate's Awakening, The Lady's Confession & The Baron's Apprenticeship”, p.838, e-artnow

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• No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one frightful thing to be successful.

  George MacDonald

  Successful, Men, Haste

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more”, p.647, e-artnow

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• What does God want me to do?”, not “What will God do if I do so and so?

  George MacDonald

  Doe, Want, Want Me

  George MacDonald (2016). “Unspoken Sermons, completed: MacDonald's Works”, p.69, VM eBooks

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• A man is in bondage to whatever he cannot part with that is less than
  himself.

  George MacDonald

  Men, Bondage

  George MacDonald, Rolland Hein (2004). “Creation in Christ: Unspoken Sermons”, p.115, Regent College Publishing

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• A man may sink by such slow degrees that, long after he is a devil, he may go on being a good churchman or a good dissenter and thinking himself a good Christian.

  George MacDonald

  Cristiano, Hombres, Pensamiento

  George MacDonald (2007). “Unspoken Sermons”, p.401, Cosimo, Inc.

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• What can money do to console a man with a headache?

  George MacDonald

  Money, Men, Headache

  George MacDonald (1883). “Writings: With Illustrations on Wood and Steel]”

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• Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it; or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content in ignorance as in knowledge, because God wills - neither pressing into the hidden future, nor careless of the knowledge which opens the path of action

  George MacDonald

  Faith, Ignorance, Knowing

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.12445, Delphi Classics

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• LET A MAN THINK AND CARE ever so little about God, he does not therefore exist without God. God is here with him, upholding, warming, delighting, teaching him-making life a good thing to him. God gives him himself, though the man knows it not.

  George MacDonald

  God, Teaching, Men

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more”, p.13137, e-artnow

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• As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed in genuine refinement.

  George MacDonald

  Mind, Common, Genuine

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.5197, e-artnow

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

  George MacDonald

  Jesus, Father, Miracle

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.12950, Delphi Classics

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• All love will, one day, meet with its return. All true love will, one day, behold its own image in the eyes of the beloved, and be humbly glad.

  George MacDonald

  Life, Eye, One Day

  George Macdonald (2013). “The Princess Treasury”, p.466, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh the folly of any mind that would explain God before obeying Him! That would map out the character of God instead of crying, Lord, what wouldst thou have me to do?

  George MacDonald

  Character, Mind, Maps

  George Macdonald (2012). “Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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• I wondered over again for the hundredth time what could be the principle which, in the wildest, most lawless, fantastically chaotic, apparently capricious work of Nature, always kept it beautiful.

  George MacDonald

  Beautiful, Nature, Principles

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.1681, Delphi Classics

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• Here I should like to remark, for the sake of princes and princesses in general, that it is a low and contemptible thing to refuse to confess a fault, or even an error. If a true princess has done wrong, she is always uneasy until she has had an opportunity of throwing the wrongness away from her by saying: 'I did it; and I wish I had not; and I am sorry for having done it.

  George MacDonald

  Sorry, Princess, Opportunity

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.4208, Delphi Classics

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• One who not merely beholds the outward shows of things, but catches a glimpse of the soul that looks out of them, whose garment and revelation they are-if he be such, I say, he will stand, for more than a moment, speechless with something akin to that which made the morning stars sing together.

  George MacDonald

  Morning, Stars, Soul

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.5396, e-artnow

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• Those that hope little cannot grow much.

  George MacDonald

  Littles, Grows

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.13288, Delphi Classics

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• The part of the philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour good must first study how not to do him evil, and must begin by pulling the beam out of his own eye.

  George MacDonald

  Ojo, Hombres, Mal

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more”, p.1453, e-artnow

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• O Christ, my life, possess me utterly.
  Take me and make a little Christ of me.
  If I am anything but thy father's son,
  'Tis something not yet from the darkness won.
  Oh, give me light to live with open eyes.
  Oh, give me life to hope above all skies.

  George MacDonald

  Father, Eye, Son

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more”, p.12938, e-artnow

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• God chooses that men should be tried, but let a man beware of tempting his neighbor.

  George MacDonald

  Men, Neighbor, Should

  George Macdonald (1870). “The Miracles of Our Lord”, p.17

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• The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love.

  George MacDonald

  And Love, Kingdoms, Stage

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.6068, Delphi Classics

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• A condition which of declension would indicate a devil, may of growth indicate a saint.

  George MacDonald

  Growth, Devil, Saint

  George MacDonald (1867). “Unspoken Sermons”, p.37

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• The whole trouble is that we won't let God help us.

  George MacDonald

  Letting Go, Independence, Helping

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more”, p.8243, e-artnow

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• But it is not the rich man only who is under the dominion of things; they too are slaves who, having no money, are unhappy from the lack of it.

  George MacDonald

  Unhappy, Rich, Slave

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