George MacDonald Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“What does God want me to do?â€, not “What will God do if I do so and so?”
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“Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them.”
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“Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great.”
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“To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.”
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“We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.”
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“If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.”
-- George MacDonald#Inspirational Quotes #Friendship Quotes #Encouragement Quotes
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“It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.”
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“Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.”
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“Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.”
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“He may delay because it would not be safe to give us at once what we ask: we are not ready for it. To give ere we could truly receive, would be to destroy the very heart and hope of prayer, to cease to be our Father. The delay itself may work to bring us nearer to our help, to increase the desire, perfect the prayer, and ripen the receptive condition.”
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“Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.”
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“Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.”
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“I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.”
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“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 earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.”
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“Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the one thing hated.”
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“The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.”
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“It is not the high summer alone that is God's. The winter also is His. And into His winter He came to visit us. And all man's winters are His - the winter of our poverty, the winter of our sorrow, the winter of our unhappiness - even 'the winter of our discontent.”
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“All about us, in earth and air, wherever the eye or ear can reach, there is a power ever breathing itself forth in signs, now in daisy, now in a wind-waft, a cloud, a sunset; a power that holds constant and sweetest relation with the dark and silent world within us. The same God who is in us, and upon whose tree we are the buds, if not yet the flowers, also is all about us- inside, the Spirit; outside, the Word. And the two are ever trying to meet in us...”
-- George MacDonaldSource : George MacDonald (1978). “The World of George Macdonald: Selections from His Works of Fiction”, Shaw
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“How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.”
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“"But if God is so good as you represent Him, and if He knows all that we need, and better far than we do ourselves, why should it be necessary to ask Him for anything?" I answer, "What if He knows prayer to be the thing we need first and most? What if the main object in God's idea of prayer be the supplying of our great, our endless need - the need of Himself?"”
-- George MacDonaldSource : George Macdonald (2012). “Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III”, p.128, Simon and Schuster
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“Sad, indeed, would the whole matter be if the Bible had told us everything God meant us to believe. But herein is the Bible greatly wronged. It nowhere lays claim to be regarded as the Word, the Way, the Truth. The Bible leads us to Jesus, the inexhaustible, the ever-unfolding Revelation of God. It is Christ "in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge," not the Bible, save as leading to Him.”
-- George MacDonaldSource : George MacDonald (2016). “Unspoken Sermons, completed: MacDonald's Works”, p.26, VM eBooks
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“Trust to God to weave your thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet.”
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“All things are possible with God, but all things are not easy.”
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“For when is the child the ideal child in our eyes and to our hearts? Is it not when with gentle hand he takes his father by the beard, and turns that father's face up to his brothers and sisters to kiss? when even the lovely selfishness of love-seeking has vanished, and the heart is absorbed in loving?”
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“It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down. For the needs of today we have corresponding strength given. For the morrow we are told to trust. It is not ours yet. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.”
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“When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over”
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“When we understand the outside of things, we think we have them. Yet the Lord puts his things in subdefined, suggestive shapes, yielding no satisfactory meaning to the mere intellect, but unfolding themselves to the conscience and heart.”
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“In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably.”
-- George MacDonaldSource : George MacDonald (2007). “Unspoken Sermons”, p.248, Cosimo, Inc.
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“Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.”
-- George MacDonaldSource : 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.13293, e-artnow
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“It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.”
-- George MacDonald
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