Quotes by George MacDonald

George MacDonald (1824–1905) — Schriftsteller · Kongregationalistisch · Schottland

Recurring topics: Faith & Trust, Meaning & Identity, Discipleship, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Suffering & the Question of God, Grief & Comfort, Prayer & Silence, Temptation & Struggle

Quotes by George MacDonald

Afflictions are but the shadows of God’s wings.
George MacDonald

That man is perfect in faith who can come to God in the utter dearth of his feelings and desires, without a glow or an aspiration, with the weight of low thoughts, failures, neglects, and wandering forgetfulness, and say to Him, “Thou art my refuge.”
George MacDonald

Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.
George MacDonald

A man’s real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.
George MacDonald

All growth that is not toward God, is growing to decay.
George MacDonald

The principle part of faith is patience.
George MacDonald

I firmly believe people have hitherto been a great deal too much taken up about doctrine and far too little about practice. The word “doctrine,” as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.
George MacDonald

If we do not die to ourselves, we cannot live to God, and he that does not live to God, is dead.
George MacDonald

All human action without God is an expression of misery - whether one fails or succeeds.
George MacDonald

A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear.
George MacDonald

It is our best work that God wants.
George MacDonald

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