All haste implies weakness. George MacDonald More Quotes by George MacDonald More Quotes From George MacDonald Why should my love be powerless to help another? George MacDonald should helping love-is Many a life has been injured by the constant expectation of death. It is life we have to do with, not death. The best preparation for the night is to work diligently while the day lasts. The best preparation for death is life. George MacDonald work night life I believe that no hell will be lacking which would help the just mercy of God to redeem his children. George MacDonald mercy-of-god believe children I firmly believe people have hitherto been a great deal too much taken up about doctrine and far too little about practice. The word "doctrine," as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory. George MacDonald teaching christian believe What would the Living One have me do? George MacDonald For the bliss of the animals lies in this, that, on their lower level, they shadow the bliss of those--few at any moment on the earth--who do not 'look before and after, and pine for what is not,' but live in the holy carelessness of the eternal now. George MacDonald shadow animal lying I've been thinking about it a great deal, and it seems to me that although any one sixpence is as good as any other sixpence, not twenty lambs would do instead of one sheep whose face you knew. Somehow, when once you've looked into anybody's eyes, right deep down into them, I mean, nobody will do for that one any more . Nobody, ever so beautiful or so good, will make up for that one going out of sight. George MacDonald eye beautiful mean There is no slave but the creature that wills against its Creator. George MacDonald creator slave creatures No, there is no escape. There is no heaven with a little of hell in it--no plan to retain this or that of the devil in our hearts or our pockets. Out Satan must go, every hair and feather! George MacDonald hair heart heaven A voice is in the wind I do not know George MacDonald voice god wind There is an aching that is worse than any pain. George MacDonald regret pain As Christ is the blossom of humanity, so the blossom of every man is Christ perfected in him. George MacDonald humanity men christ Religion is life essential. George MacDonald essentials religion Do you think you love your children better than He who made them? Is not your love what it is because He put it into your heart first? Have you not often been cross with them? Sometimes unjust to them? Whence came the returning love that rose from unknown depths in your being, and swept away the anger and the injustice? You did not create that love. Probably you were not good enough to send for it by prayer. But it came. God sent it. He makes you love your children. George MacDonald prayer love-you children Her heart - like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away - was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she saw. George MacDonald caring heart love It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity. George MacDonald quality-not-quantity literature thinking God Himself - His thoughts, His will, His love, His judgments are men's home. To think His thoughts, to choose His will, to judge His judgments, and thus to know that He is in us, with us, is to be at home. And to pass through the valley of the shadow of death is the way home, but only thus, that as all changes have hitherto led us nearer to this home, the knowledge of God, so this greatest of all outward changes - for it is but an outward change - will surely usher us into a region where there will be fresh possibilities of drawing nigh in heart, soul, and mind to the Father of us all. George MacDonald god home father God hides nothing. His very work from the beginning is revelation--a casting aside of veil after veil, a showing unto men of truth after truth. On and on from fact Divine He advances, until at length in His Son Jesus He unveils His very face. George MacDonald god son jesus It needs brains to be a real fool. George MacDonald real brain needs 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 christian men thinking
