There is no cheating in nature and the simple unsought feelings of the soul. There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning. George MacDonald More Quotes by George MacDonald More Quotes From George MacDonald 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. George MacDonald unfinished-work clouds men Each is but a means to an end; in the perfected end we find the intent, and there God — not in the laws themselves, except as his means of revealing himself. For that same reason, human science cannot discover God. For human science is but the backward undoing of the tapestry-web of God's science, it works with its back to him, and is always leaving him — his intent. George MacDonald revelations leaving evolution God is nearer to you than any thought or feeling of yours... Do not be afraid. George MacDonald jesus-christ feelings jesus To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us. George MacDonald intellectual home fall Alas, how easily things go wrong! A sigh too much, a kiss too long And there follows a mist and a weeping rain And life is never the same again George MacDonald kissing rain long But we believe – nay, Lord we only hope, That one day we shall thank thee perfectly For pain and hope and all that led or drove Us back into the bosom of thy love. George MacDonald one-day pain believe Those are not the tears of repentance!... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates. George MacDonald self home father Timely service, like timely gifts, is doubled in value. George MacDonald timely values one-day Difficulty adds to result, as the ramming of powder sends the bullet the further. George MacDonald powder bullets add Then the Old Man of the Earth stooped over the floor of the cave, raised a huge stone from it, and left it leaning. It disclosed a great hole that went plumb-down. "That is the way," he said. "But there are no stairs." "You must throw yourself in. There is no other way. George MacDonald caves earth men Love me, beloved; Hades and Death Shall vanish away like a frosty breath; These hands, that now are at home in thine, Shall clasp thee again, if thou art still mine; And thou shalt be mine, my spirit's bride, In the ceaseless flow of eternity's tide, If the truest love thy heart can know Meet the truest love that from mine can flow. Pray God, beloved, for thee and me, That our sourls may be wedded eternally. George MacDonald home hands art I want to help you grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when he thought of you first. George MacDonald want beautiful beauty If it were not for the outside world, we would have no inside world to understand things by. Least of all could we understand God without these millions of sights and sounds and scents and motions, weaving their endless harmonies. They come out of His heart to let us know a little of what is in it. George MacDonald environmental sight heart God is the God of the animals in a far lovelier way, I suspect, than many of us dare to think, but he will not be the God of a man by making a good beast of him. George MacDonald animal men thinking The whole history of the Christian life is a series of resurrections. . . . Every time we find our hearts are troubled, that we are not rejoicing in God, a resurrection must follow; a resurrection out of the night of troubled thought into the gladness of the truth. George MacDonald christian heart night A Baby Sermon- The lighting and thunder, they go and they come: But the stars and the stillness are always at home George MacDonald stars home baby I dare not say with Paul that I am the slave of Christ, but my highest aspiration and desire is to be the slave of Christ. George MacDonald slave desire christ Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing. George MacDonald seeing believe People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it. George MacDonald doubt believe people We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough. George MacDonald divine enough desire
