George MacDonald

George MacDonald

"If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction."
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"If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction."
George MacDonald Weighed and Wanting
"The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done."
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
"Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life."
George MacDonald
"Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly."
George MacDonald
"When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over."
George MacDonald
"To have what we want is riches but to be able to do without is power."
George MacDonald
"Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk."
George MacDonald
"How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset."
George MacDonald
"It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen."
George MacDonald
"Attitudes are more important than facts."
George MacDonald
"The west is broken into bars Of orange gold and gray Gone is the sun come are the stars And night infolds the day."
George MacDonald
"To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved."
George MacDonald
"It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear."
George MacDonald
"It is not the cares of today but the cares of tomorrow that weigh a man down. For the needs of today we have corresponding strength given. For the morrow we are told to trust. It is not ours yet."
George MacDonald
"Fear is faithlessness."
George MacDonald
"A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear."
George MacDonald
"My prayers my God flow from what I am not I think Thy answers make me what I am."
George MacDonald
"This is a sane wholesome practical working faith: That it is a man's business to do the will of God second that God himself takes on the care of that man and third that therefore that man ought never to be afraid of anything."
George MacDonald
"We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well."
George MacDonald
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