783 Quotes by George MacDonald

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.

If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence

Heaven...a place where everything that is not music is silence.

This is and has been the Fathers work from the beginning-to bring us into the home of His heart.

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

A man may sink by such slow degrees that, long after he is a devil, he may go on being a good churchman or a good dissenter and thinking himself a good Christian.

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.

Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will.

There is an aching that is worse than any pain.