All things are possible with God, but all things are not easy. George MacDonald More Quotes by George MacDonald More Quotes From George MacDonald The word doctrine, as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory. George MacDonald doctrine teaching mean Some thinkers would feel sorely hampered if at liberty to use no forms but such as existed in nature, or to invent nothing save in accordance with the laws of the world of the senses; but George MacDonald liberty law desire Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence. George MacDonald nothingness existence ideas Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty. George MacDonald difficulty choices literature If there be music in my reader, I would gladly wake it. George MacDonald reader ifs The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom. George MacDonald appreciate health exercise But God lets men have their playthings, like the children they are, that they may learn to distinguish them from true possessions. If they are not learning that he takes them from them, and George MacDonald trying men children All that man sees has to do with man. Worlds cannot be without an intermundane relationship. The community of the centre of all creation suggests an interradiating connection and dependence George MacDonald community men ideas Alas! how easily things go wrong! George MacDonald alas A man is in bondage to whatever he cannot part with that is less than George MacDonald bondage men Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration. George MacDonald shadow ambition evil There is no water in oxygen, no water in hydrogen: it comes bubbling fresh from the imagination of the living God, rushing from under the great white throne of the glacier. The very thought of it makes one gasp with an elemental joy no metaphysician can analyse. George MacDonald rushing oxygen white Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the sky as I came through. George MacDonald eye sky blue A God must have a God for company. George MacDonald love-life law son What can money do to console a man with a headache? George MacDonald headache money men There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve. George MacDonald strength shining giving Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon. George MacDonald light prayer wish It's right to trust in God; but, if you don't stand to your halliards your craft'll miss stays, and your faith'll be blown out of the bolt-ropes in the turn of a marlinspike. George MacDonald rope crafts missing Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths. Cometh white-robed Sorrow, stooping and wan, and flingeth wide the door she must not enter. George MacDonald white doors joy And in thy own sermon, thou George MacDonald blessed father fall
