All things are possible with God, but all things are not easy. George MacDonald More Quotes by George MacDonald More Quotes From George MacDonald They will pressure you into doing things that may be unsafe, use your good judgment, and remember, 'I would rather be laughed at, than cried for.' George MacDonald use pressure may What a good thing, for instance, it was that one princess should sleep for a hundred years! Was she not saved from all the plague of young men who were not worthy of her? And did not she come awake exactly at the right moment when the right prince kissed her? For my part, I cannot help wishing a good many girls would sleep till just the same fate overtook them. It would be happier for them, and more agreeable to their friends. George MacDonald princess girl sleep Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken. George MacDonald infidelity views men 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 if-there-is-a-god atheism atheist Somehow, I can't say how, it tells me that all is right; that it is coming to swallow up all cries. George MacDonald cry i-can I watched her departure, as one watches a sunset. She went like a radiance through the dark wood, which was henceforth bright to me, from simply knowing that such a creature was in it. George MacDonald sunset knowing dark The trees bathed their great heads in the waves of the morning, while their roots were planted deep in gloom; save where on the borders of the sunshine broke against their stems, or swept in long streams through their avenues, washing with brighter hue all the leaves over which it flowed; revealing the rich brown of the dacayed leaves and fallen pine-cones, and the delicate greens of the long grasses and tiny forests of moss that covered the channel over which it passed in the motionless rivers of light. George MacDonald sunshine light morning Except the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ Jesus make a man sick of his opinions, he may hold them to doomsday for me; for no opinion, I repeat is Christianity, and no preaching of any plan of salvation is the preaching of the glorious gospel of the living God. George MacDonald light men jesus I learned that he that will be a hero will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work is sure of his manhood. George MacDonald doers hero men If those who had set themselves to explain the various theories of Christianity had set themselves instead to do the will of the Master, how different the world would be now! George MacDonald different would-be religion Cleverness is cheap. It is faith that He praises. George MacDonald christian faith praise Every truth must be accompanied by some corresponding act. George MacDonald corresponding truth I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any man out of is doubtless the very best place for him to go to. It is truth... that saves the world. George MacDonald honesty truth lying Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call reality? -- not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier? Fair as is the gliding sloop on the shining sea, the wavering, trembling, unresting sail below is fairer still...All mirrors are magic mirrors. The commonest room is a room in a poem when I turn to the glass...There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning. George MacDonald strong reflection reality there is no harm in being afraid. The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your master! Laugh in his face and he will run away. George MacDonald faces running laughing We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said. George MacDonald want people needs The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world, because it tells me his story; and what good men thought about him who knew him and accepted him. George MacDonald biblical bible jesus Suppose you didn't know him, would that make any difference?' 'No,' said Willie, after thinking a little. 'Other people would know him if I didn't.' 'Yes, and if nobody knew him, God would know him, and anybody God has thought worth making, it's an honor to do anything for. George MacDonald differences people thinking In very truth, a wise imagination, which is the presence of the spirit of God, is the best guide that man or woman can have; for it is not the things we see the most clearly that influence us the most powerfully; undefined, yet vivid visions of something beyond, something which eye has not seen nor ear heard, have far more influence than any logical sequences whereby the same things may be demonstrated to the intellect. It is the nature of the thing, not the clearness of its outline, that determines its operation. We live by faith, and not by sight. George MacDonald eye wise men Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace? George MacDonald dissonance grace ideas
