783 Quotes by George MacDonald

He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not likely to ask amiss.

The word doctrine, as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.

If it were not for the outside world, we would have no inside world to understand things by. Least of all could we understand God without these millions of sights and sounds and scents and motions, weaving their endless harmonies. They come out of His heart to let us know a little of what is in it.

We are and remain such creeping Christians, because we look at ourselves and not at Christ; because we gaze at the marks of our own soiled feet, and the trail of our own defiled garments.... Each, putting his foot in the footprint of the Master, and so defacing it, turns to examine how far his neighbor’s footprint corresponds with that which he still calls the Master’s, although it is but his own.

No one is likely to remember what is entirely uninteresting to him.

All is loss that comes between us and Christ.

He (God) can be revealed only to the child; perfectly, to the pure child only. All the discipline of the world is to make men children, that God may be revealed to them.

I tell you, there are more worlds, and more doors to them, than you will think of in many years!

The ideal is the only absolute real; and it must become the real in the individual life as well, however impossible they may count it who never tried it.