You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud. (George MacDonald)
Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of all men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken. (George MacDonald)
But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms. (George MacDonald)
Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty. (George MacDonald)
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved. (George MacDonald)
Most of the Psalms were born in a wilderness. Most of the Epistles were written in a prison. The greatest thoughts of the greatest thinkers have all passed through the fire. The greatest poets have learned in suffering what they taught in song. In bonds Bunyan lived the allegory that he afterwards wrote, and we may thank Bedford Jail for the Pilgrim's Progress. Take comfort, afflicted Christian When God is about to make pre-eminent use of a person, He puts them in the fire. (George MacDonald)
Where did you come from, baby dear Out of the everywhere into here. (George MacDonald)
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)
The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom. (George MacDonald)
We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well. (George MacDonald)
To try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse. The only way to make them good is to be good, remembering well the beam and the mote. (George MacDonald)
The two pillars of 'political correctness' area) willful ignoranceb) a steadfast refusal to face the truth (George MacDonald)
God desires not that He may say to them, 'Look how mighty I am, and go down upon your knees and worship,' for power alone was never yet worthy of prayer but that He may say thus 'Look, my children, you will never be strong but with my strength. I have no other to give you. And that you can get only by trusting in me. I can not give it you any other way. There is no other way.' (George MacDonald)
It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing. (George MacDonald)
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. (George MacDonald)