George MacDonald Quotes (59 Quotes)

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

Attitudes are more important than facts.

Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.

Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes.

It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is, when tomorrows 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 Gods. He begs you to leave the future to Him, and mind the present.

There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

Sad, indeed, would the whole matter be if the Bible had told us everything God meant us to believe. But herein is the Bible greatly wronged. It nowhere lays claim to be regarded as the Word, the Way, the Truth. The Bible leads us to Jesus, the inexhaustible, the ever-unfolding Revelation of God. It is Christ 'in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge,' not the Bible, save as leading to Him.

Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.