783 Quotes by George MacDonald

People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn’t seen some of it.

Because we easily imagine ourselves in want, we imagine God ready to forsake us.

The whole trouble is that we won’t let God help us.

Of all teachings that which presents a far distant God is the nearest to absurdity. Either there is none, or he is nearer to every one of us than our nearest consciousness of self. An unapproachable divinity is the veriest of monsters, the most horrible of human imaginations.

I know my Easts and Tom Brown, you see, and they’re never happy unless their morality is being tried in the furnace and they can feel they are doing the right Christian thing and never mind the consequences to anyone else.

Who knows what harm may be done to a man by hurrying a spiritual process in him?

Better to have the poet’s heart than brain, Feeling than song.

I need a God; and if there be none how did I come to need one?

My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am. Like weary waves thought follows upon thought, But the still depth beneath is all thine own, And there thou mov’st in paths to us unknown.