Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure. 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. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven. George MacDonald adversity clouds men He may delay because it would not be safe to give us at once what we ask: we are not ready for it. To give ere we could truly receive, would be to destroy the very heart and hope of prayer, to cease to be our Father. The delay itself may work to bring us nearer to our help, to increase the desire, perfect the prayer, and ripen the receptive condition. George MacDonald prayer heart father If we do not die to ourselves, we cannot live to God, andhe that does not live to God, is dead. George MacDonald christianity faith doe To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved. George MacDonald love friendship life Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness. George MacDonald meditation-practice stress inspirational We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well. George MacDonald wells inspire life A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it. George MacDonald politics doe men Those Christians who are very strict in their observances, think a good deal more of the Sabbath than of man, a great deal more of the Bible than of the truth, and ten times more of their creed than of the will of God. Of course, if they heard anyone utter such words as I have just written, they would say he was and atheist. George MacDonald atheist christian men Now I want you to think that in life troubles will come, which seem as if they never would pass away. The night and storm look as if they would last forever; but the calm and the morning cannot be stayed; the storm in its very nature is transient. The effort of nature, as that of the human heart, ever is to return to its repose, for God is Peace. George MacDonald nature morning peace The mind of the many is not the mind of God. George MacDonald majority mind Beauty and sadness always go together. George MacDonald sadness together beauty It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is, when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today, that the weight is more than a man can bear. Never load yourselves so, my friends. If you find yourselves so loaded, at least remember this: it is your own doing, not God's. He begs you to leave the future to Him, and mind the present. George MacDonald future mind men Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them. George MacDonald delight stories listening Do not measure God's mind by your own. George MacDonald god mind Past tears are present strength. George MacDonald tears past On Good Friday Jesus died But rose again at Eastertide.....Lord, teach us to understand that your Son died to save us not from suffering but from ourselves, not from injustice...but from being unjust. He died that we might live - but live as he lives, by dying as he died who died to himself. George MacDonald friday son jesus He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not likely to ask amiss. George MacDonald asks giving father The principle part of faith is patience. George MacDonald principles faith patience You doubt because you love truth. George MacDonald truth-love doubt You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud. George MacDonald amusement mud water
