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No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were written in a prison. The greatest thoughts of the greatest thinkers have all passed

No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were written in a prison. The greatest thoughts of the greatest thinkers have all passed through fire. The greatest poets have "learned in suffering what they taught in song." In bonds Bunyan lived the allegory that he afterwards wrote, and we may thank Bedford Jail for the Pilgrim's Progress. Take comfort, afflicted Christian! When God is about to make pre-eminent use of a person, He put them in the fire.

George MacDonald
Bible, God, Christian

Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great.

George MacDonald
God, Faith, Believe

"But if God is so good as you represent Him, and if He knows all that we need, and better far than we do ourselves, why should it be necessary to ask Him for anything?" I answer, "What if He knows prayer to be the thing we need first and most? What if the main object in God's idea of prayer be the supplying of our great, our endless need - the need of Himself?"

George MacDonald
God, Christian, Religious
George Macdonald (2012). “Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

Do not measure God's mind by your own.

George MacDonald
God, Mind
George MacDonald (1871). “David Elginbrod”, p.399

Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.

George MacDonald
God, Men, Giving
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.13293, e-artnow

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

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

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.

George MacDonald
God, Mean, Simple

I find the doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about his plans — I do not say for thinking about them.

George MacDonald
God, Obedience, Leaving Me
"The Marquis of Lossie".

Not only then has each man his individual relation to God, but each man has his peculiar relation to God.

George MacDonald
God, Men, Peculiar
George MacDonald (1867). “Unspoken Sermons”, p.110

Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.

George MacDonald
God, Christian, Wings
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.10063, e-artnow

LET A MAN THINK AND CARE ever so little about God, he does not therefore exist without God. God is here with him, upholding, warming, delighting, teaching him-making life a good thing to him. God gives him himself, though the man knows it not.

George MacDonald
God, Teaching, Men
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.13137, e-artnow

When I look like this into the blue sky, it seems so deep, so peaceful, so full of a mysterious tenderness, that I could lie for centuries and wait for the dawning of the face of God out of the awe-inspiring loving-kindness.

George MacDonald
God, Kindness, Lying

All that is not God is death.

George MacDonald
God
George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.13012, Delphi Classics

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.

George MacDonald
God, Voice, Wind
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.11652, e-artnow

We have to do with God, to whom no one can look without the need of being good waking up in his heart; to think about God is to begin to be good.

George MacDonald
God, Heart, Thinking
George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.12931, Delphi Classics

God Himself - His thoughts, His will, His love, His judgments are men's home. To think His thoughts, to choose His will, to judge His judgments, and thus to know that He is in us, with us, is to be at home. And to pass through the valley of the shadow of death is the way home, but only thus, that as all changes have hitherto led us nearer to this home, the knowledge of God, so this greatest of all outward changes - for it is but an outward change - will surely usher us into a region where there will be fresh possibilities of drawing nigh in heart, soul, and mind to the Father of us all.

George MacDonald
God, Father, Home
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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