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Quotes by George Macdonald
All is loss that comes between us and Christ.— filed under Christ's Fullness
Learn these two things: never be discouraged because good things get on so slowly here, and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand. Do not be in a hurry, but be diligent. Enter into the sublime patience of the Lord. Be charitable in view of it. God can afford to wait; why cannot we, since we have Him to fall back upon? Let patience have her perfect work, and bring forth her celestial fruits. Trust to God to weave your little thread into a web, though the patterns show it not yet.— filed under Christian Service
Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.— filed under Church
Come, come to Him who made thy heart; Come weary and oppressed; To come to Jesus is thy part; His part, to give thee rest.— filed under Coming To Christ
The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love.— filed under Duty
God never gave a man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it.— filed under Following Jesus
God Himself- His thoughts, His will, His love, His judgments are men's home. To think His thoughts, to choose His will, to judge His judgments, and thus to know that He is in us, with us, is to be at home. And to pass through the valley of the shadow of death is the way home, but only thus, that as all changes have hitherto led us nearer to this home, the knowledge of God, so this greatest of all outward changes - for it is but an outward change - will surely usher us into a region where there will be fresh possibilities of drawing nigh in heart, soul, and mind to the Father of us all. A— filed under God
God hides nothing. His very work from the beginning is revelation, a casting aside of veil after veil, a showing unto men of truth after truth. On and on from fact Divine He advances, until at length in His Son Jesus He unveils His very face.— filed under God's Trinity
How many people would like to be good, if only they might be good without taking trouble about it! They do not like goodness well enough to hunger and thirst after it, or to sell all that they have that they may buy it; they will not batter at the gate of the kingdom of heaven; but they look with pleasure on this or that aerial castle of righteousness, and think it would be rather nice to live in it.— filed under Goodness
How rich this earth seems when we regard it - crowded with the loves of home! Yet I am now getting ready to go home to leave this world of homes and go home. When I reach that home, shall I even then seek yet to go home? Even then, I believe, I shall seek a yet warmer, deeper, truer home in the deeper knowledge of God - in the truer love of my fellow men. Eternity will be - my heart and my faith tell me - a traveling homeward, but in jubilation and confidence and the vision of the beloved.— filed under Home
Then I said in my heart, "Come home with me, beloved there is but one home for us all. When we find - in proportion as each of us finds that home, shall we be gardens of delight to each other - little chambers of rest - galleries of pictures - wells of water,"— filed under Home
A man's labors must pass like the sunrises and sunsets of the world. The next thing, not the last, must be his care. -— filed under Labor
Life and religion are one, or neither is any thing.— filed under Life
Oh, I believe that there is no away; that no love, no life, goes ever from us; it goes as He went, that it may come again, deeper and closer and surer, and be with us always, even to the end of the world.— filed under Life
I find the doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.— filed under Obedience
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.— filed under Old Age
Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace?— filed under Prayer
O Lord, we rejoice that we are Thy making, though Thy handiwork is not very clear in our outer man as yet. We bless Thee that we feel Thy hand making us. What if it be in pain? Evermore we hear the voice of the potter above the hum and grind of His wheel. Father, Thou only knowest how we love Thee. Fashion the clay to Thy beautiful will.— filed under Prayer
But even genuine argument for the truth is not preaching the gospel, neither is he whose unbelief is thus assailed likely to be brought thereby into any mood but one unfit for receiving it. Argument should be kept to books; preachers ought to have nothing to do with it, - at all events in the pulpit. There let them hold forth light, and let him, who will, receive it, and him who will not, forbear. God only can convince.— filed under Preaching
To judge religion we must have it - not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.— filed under Religion
One of the grandest things in having rights is that, being your rights, you may give them up.— filed under Rights
Time, beneath whose influence the pyramids moulder into dust, and the flinty rocks decay, does not and cannot destroy a fact, nor strip a truth of one portion of its essential importance. Truth is a very different thing from fact; it is the loving contact of the soul with spiritual fact, vital and potent. It does not work in the soul independently of all faculty or qualification there for setting it forth or defending it. Truth in the inward parts is a power, not an opinion.— filed under Truth
When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.— filed under Youth
Afflictions are but the shadow of God's wings.— filed under Affliction