He (God) can be revealed only to the child; perfectly, to the pure child only. All the discipline of the world is to make men children, that God may be revealed to them. George MacDonald More Quotes by George MacDonald More Quotes From George MacDonald Remember, then, that whoever does not mean good is always in danger of harm. But I try to give everybody fair play, and those that are in the wrong are in far more need of it always than those who are in the right: they can afford to do without it. George MacDonald play giving mean Love loves unto purity. Love has ever in view the absolute loveliness of that which it beholds. Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love's kind, must be destroyed. And our God is a consuming fire. George MacDonald fire views beautiful The Lord never came to deliver men from the consequences of their sins while yet those sins remained...Yet men, loving their sins and feeling nothing of their dread hatefulness, have, consistent with their low condition, constantly taken this word concerning the Lord to mean that he came to save them from the punishment of their sins. George MacDonald taken men mean No man has the mind of Christ, except him who makes it his business to obey him. George MacDonald mind men christ Well, perhaps; but I begin to think there are better things than being comfortable. George MacDonald wells comfortable thinking It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again. George MacDonald wrong-things people In the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality; what men call death is but a shadow. George MacDonald men life reality 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 able waiting giving The time for speaking seldom arrives, the time for being never departs. George MacDonald How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset. George MacDonald sunset literature death There are things that must be done in faith, else they never have being. George MacDonald done faith It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing. George MacDonald growing literature men If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence George MacDonald enlargement limits father 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 maps mind character What does God want me to do?”, not “What will God do if I do so and so? George MacDonald want-me doe want The kingdom of heaven is not come even when God's will is our law; it is fully come when God's will is our will. George MacDonald prayer christian law But, for as cold and wretched as it looks, the sun has not forsaken it. He has only drawn away from it a little, for good reasons, one of which is that we may learn that we cannot do without him. George MacDonald pain suffering winter 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 princess sorry opportunity God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it. George MacDonald done men son 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 nature principles beautiful
