783 Quotes by George MacDonald

A voice is in the wind I do not know A meaning on the face of the high hills Whose utterance I cannot comprehend. A something is behind them: that is God.

You've got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of your neighbors if they will let you; and for that reason you must cultivate, not a spirit of criticism, but the talents that attract people to the hearing of the Word.

If we knew as much about heaven as God does, we would clap our hands every time a Christian dies.

If we do not die to ourselves, we cannot live to God, andhe that does not live to God, is dead.

But there is a light that goes deeper than the will, a light that lights up the darkness behind it: that light can change your will, can make it truly yours and not another's - not the Shadow's. Into the created can pour itself the creating will, and so redeem it!

God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it.

Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths. Cometh white-robed Sorrow, stooping and wan, and flingeth wide the door she must not enter.

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

I want to help you grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when he thought of you first.