783 Quotes by George MacDonald

It's right to trust in God; but, if you don't stand to your halliards your craft'll miss stays, and your faith'll be blown out of the bolt-ropes in the turn of a marlinspike.

Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.

Never was there a more injurous mistake than to say it was thebusiness only of the clergy to care for souls.

The part of the philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour good must first study how not to do him evil, and must begin by pulling the beam out of his own eye.

The purposes of God point to one simple end-that we should be as he is, think the same thoughts, mean the same things, possess the same blessedness.

Alas! this time is never the time for self-denial, it is always the next time. Abstinence is so much more pleasant to contemplate upon the other side of indulgence.

The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like His.

Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin... wickedness has made you ugly.

No; but you came, and found the riddles waiting for you! Indeed you are yourself the only riddle. What you call riddles are truths, and seem riddles because you are not true.