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I am so tried by the things said about God. I understand God's patience with the wicked, but I do wonder how he can be so patient with the pious!

I am so tried by the things said about God. I understand God's patience with the wicked, but I do wonder how he can be so patient with the pious!

George MacDonald
God, Wicked, Patient

The mind of the many is not the mind of God.

George MacDonald
Mind, Majority
George MacDonald (2015). “George MacDonald: The Complete Fantasy Collection - 8 Novels & 30+ Short Stories and Fairy Tales (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Lilith, Phantastes, The Princess and Curdie, At the Back of the North Wind, Portent, The Lost Princess, Adela Cathcart, Dealings with the Fairies and many more”, p.1346, e-artnow

It is not the high summer alone that is God's. The winter also is His. And into His winter He came to visit us. And all man's winters are His - the winter of our poverty, the winter of our sorrow, the winter of our unhappiness - even 'the winter of our discontent.

George MacDonald
Summer, Winter, Men
George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.636, Delphi Classics

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

George MacDonald
Men, Doe, Politics
George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.8383, Delphi Classics

Now I want you to think that in life troubles will come, which seem as if they never would pass away. The night and storm look as if they would last forever; but the calm and the morning cannot be stayed; the storm in its very nature is transient. The effort of nature, as that of the human heart, ever is to return to its repose, for God is Peace.

George MacDonald
Morning, Peace, Nature

On Good Friday Jesus died But rose again at Eastertide.....Lord, teach us to understand that your Son died to save us not from suffering but from ourselves, not from injustice...but from being unjust. He died that we might live - but live as he lives, by dying as he died who died to himself.

George MacDonald
Friday, Jesus, Son

there is no harm in being afraid. The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your master! Laugh in his face and he will run away.

George MacDonald
Running, Laughing, Faces
George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.1565, e-artnow

All about us, in earth and air, wherever the eye or ear can reach, there is a power ever breathing itself forth in signs, now in daisy, now in a wind-waft, a cloud, a sunset; a power that holds constant and sweetest relation with the dark and silent world within us. The same God who is in us, and upon whose tree we are the buds, if not yet the flowers, also is all about us- inside, the Spirit; outside, the Word. And the two are ever trying to meet in us.

George MacDonald
Faith, Flower, Inspiration
George MacDonald (1978). “The World of George Macdonald: Selections from His Works of Fiction”, Shaw

The principle part of faith is patience.

George MacDonald
Faith, Patience, Principles

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

George MacDonald
Father, Home, Heart
George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more”, p.13355, e-artnow

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

George MacDonald
Faith, Doe, Christianity
George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more”, p.13403, e-artnow

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

George MacDonald
Inspirational, Friendship, Thinking Of You

God hides nothing. His very work from the beginning is revelation--a casting aside of veil after veil, a showing unto men of truth after truth. On and on from fact Divine He advances, until at length in His Son Jesus He unveils His very face.

George MacDonald
God, Jesus, Son
George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.6249, Delphi Classics

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.

George MacDonald
Leadership, Jesus, Believe
George MacDonald (2016). “Unspoken Sermons, completed: MacDonald's Works”, p.26, VM eBooks

If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction.

George MacDonald
Prayer, Doe, Genius
George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.7819, Delphi Classics

To give truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation.

George MacDonald
Giving, Misinterpretation, Materials
George MacDonald (1985). “The Curate's Awakening”

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.

George MacDonald
Father, Giving, Asks
George Macdonald (1981). “Lilith”, p.6, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Anything big enough to occupy our minds is big enough to hang a prayer on.

George MacDonald
Prayer, Mind, Enough

It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is, when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today, that the weight is more than a man can bear. Never load yourselves so, my friends. If you find yourselves so loaded, at least remember this: it is your own doing, not God's. He begs you to leave the future to Him, and mind the present.

George MacDonald
Future, Men, Mind
George Macdonald (2015). “Annals Of A Quiet Neighbourhood”, p.142, George Macdonald

[God desires] not that He may say to them, "Look how mighty I am, and go down upon your knees and worship," for power alone was never yet worthy of prayer; but that He may say thus: "Look, my children, you will never be strong but with my strength. I have no other to give you. And that you can get only by trusting in me. I can not give it you any other way. There is no other way."

George MacDonald
Strong, Prayer, Children

Trust to God to weave your thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet.

George MacDonald
Patterns, Thread, Shows

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

George MacDonald
Friendship, Trust, Tragedy
George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.4026, e-artnow

We profess to think Jesus the grandest and most glorious of men, yet hardly care to be like him. When we are offered his Spirit, that is, his very nature within us, for the asking, we will hardly take the trouble to ask for it.

George MacDonald
Jesus, Men, Thinking
George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.1657, Delphi Classics

We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.

George MacDonald
People, Want, Needs
George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.10054, Delphi Classics

Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin. The only vengeance worth having on sin is to make the sinner himself its executioner.

George MacDonald
Vengeance, Sin, Executioners

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